Word: spending
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...loyal in its support. The team, however, does not require the presence of undergraduates at daily practice to feel this. It would be much better for the men who would watch opon practice to indulge in some form of exercise during the time they would otherwise spend in the Stadium. We believe, however, that the undergraduates should see the University team in action on the Fridays before the Michigan and Princeton games and at the last practice in Cambridge before the Yale game. This the coaches are most willing to do, and these are the proper times to openly show...
Coaches for a number of years have been sparing in their use of the forward pass, labelling it dangerous after a few experiments. The great barrier to its success has been lack of serious practice on the part of the men making the play. Men spend hour after hour in practicing drop and place kicking and punting and in other ways perfecting themselves in specialties. If any coach doubts that the forward pass can be thrown with deadly accuracy and received with perfect surety he would do well to watch the work of such teams as Tufts, which have brought...
...return the University has sent Professor W. A. Neilson to Paris for the entire year, and Professor A. B. Hart will go to the University of Berlin in February. Professor L. J. Henderson has been named as Harvard representative at the Western colleges, and will spend the year lecturing at Beloit, Grinnell, Ames and Colorado...
...people cling to tradition and custom as do schoolmen the world over. And so Latin, and Greek too, for that matter, remained a basic part of the usual school curriculum. And now some disrespectful and doubting inquirer stands up and asks why it is that children should spend so large a fraction of their whole school time in the technical study of languages that have been dead and buried these many years. Immediately there is a great hunting for reasons--and of really good reasons there is none, for the simple cause that it is not based upon reason...
...short periods are frequently needed to enable students to get the best advantage of the year of study upon which they have embarked. Men of capacity and ambition are from time to time obliged to break off their studies in the course of the year, or to spend many hours of valuable time in supporting themselves by work which is poorly remunerated and is accompanied by no corresponding intellectual advantage to them. Some cases of urgent necessity are met each year by loans from the Scholarship and Beneficiary Money Returned Fund in Harvard College, but this Fund must...