Word: stick
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University would like to feel that the present Freshman class is no exception to her rule of reliability and stick-to-it-iveness. But as long as the 1923 hockey squad evaporates at a snap of cold weather, Harvard will have to take it at its own valuation...
...radical element is using propaganda to its fullest extent. The logical way to combating this is with counter-propaganda. In plain words, if we want to keep the dirty fingers of the Soviet off our government and institutions we must rap those fingers with a "big stick" of counter-propaganda before they obtain a grip...
...such capacity. As Dean Briggs frankly pointed out in his entertaining "Fathers, Mothers, and Freshmen," too many fathers assure their sons that they will do everything they can to "square" them with those who are in charge of the discipline of the college, while writing those authorities to stick to their guns. Sophomores have always shown an overweening eagerness to assume responsibility for the Freshmen's every act, but it cannot be said that their methods have the sanction of disciplinary experts. Why not draft the Faculty for the job? Since members of the teaching staff have time hanging upon...
Practice this fall is to consist mainly of stick work, although a few informal scrimmage games are to be arranged...
Although studies cannot on any account be neglected, especially at first, one of the very last ways of getting into touch with the College is to stick to one's books too consistently. Some few always go to the "activity" extreme, others to the scholastic. But it is a well-established fact that the solid majority of each class at Harvard proves thoroughly capable of riding both horses at once, and doing it well. In fact, the maintenance of a constant balance between these two phases of college life is the truest criterion of a successful all-around college career...