Word: statement
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Faculty has issued another statement with regard to its recent stand on the athletic question. It appears that the idea of largely curtailing the number of intercollegiate contests did not originate at Harvard, but at a meeting of the Association of Colleges in New England, held at Cambridge early in December. The vote was communicated to the colleges represented in the Association and Harvard has conveyed to the Association its official approval of the plan...
Suppose that Harvard is permitted to play but four or five games on each schedule. We do not think that this is an exaggerated statement of the contemplated move. What then will be the result? We shall be at an overwhelming disadvantage, we shall be unable to compete with any measure of success, and finally intercollegiate athletics at Harvard, the greatest binding and unifying force we have, will tend...
This seems like a radical statement, but we cannot help feeling its truth. Athletes themselves admit that the practice is often drudgery, and its greatest pleasure is the feeling of strength that accompanies the gradual perfection of team play for the intercollegiate games,--the real tests. Shall we increase our periods of practice out of all proportion to our games, or shall we organize the football team in November and the baseball team for Commencement week? In either case the interest of the participants will be decreased one hundred-fold, and of that there can be but one result--intercollegiate...
...Bureau of Municipal Research will be pleased to send further information to any students interested in its successful attempts to secure uniform accounting for the municipal departments, budget estimates based upon a clear statement of department needs, the proposed reorganization of the central auditing and examining of New York City, and methods of arriving at necessary charter changes
...collected various current indexes to newspapers and periodicals, bibliographies which supplement the subject catalogue, and printed catalogues of neighboring libraries from which the Library borrows when the need arises. Among these catalogues are many lists which are confined to special subjects or classes of books. A more detailed statement in regard to the various kinds of reference books and bibliographies can be made later...