Word: speech
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Dean Briggs expressed in the first speech of the evening the general satisfaction which is felt by all Harvard men in the football victory. Walter Camp is an acknowledged football expert who has developed a system of coaching which has drawn men of athletic ability from all parts of the country. This year Haughton has worsted him. Harvard has suffered lately from a reputation of inefficiency in athletics in everything except baseball. We cannot be accused of considering football the ultimate goal toward which to strive, but the real goal is the successful application of trained intelligence in everything...
President Eliot's Speech on Athletics...
...Garcelon made a stirring speech on the present system of developing the University teams. Formerly there was practically no connection between the work of one year and that of the next, or between the work of the different teams on the field at the same time. The same mistakes in coaching and management recurred regularly at intervals of three or four years. This year Coach Haughton has been present at the weekly meetings of all three coaching staffs, University, second team, and Freshman; and throughout the season there has been a further object in view than the development...
...things out of doors--by-products, perhaps, of vacation; one is told by a stagedriver, one by a guide, and one is a trapper's tale of long ago. The first two are "bear stories," and do not belie their kind. Rude men, of uncouth speech spiced with damns and tobacco juice; tell of beasts of fabulous dimensions and behavior, without fear of the "malleus naturfakerorum." Like other patterns for stories, this can be repeated to monotony. In "Autumn in the Forest," Mr. Edgell reproduces the sights he "photographed in his mind for future reference"; but, if I may pursue...
...more genuine. It was a case of taking advantage of our opportunity, and our opportunities are limited from now on. In this respect the President was alert as usual and seized the opportunity to talk freely about his resignation. The ever-present optimism was the keynote of his speech and we are all enlisted at his invitation in discovering the right man, a man in the very flush of the prime of life, to undertake the responsibilities which have been his for forty years. The successor will be found and it has seemed best that he be found...