Word: strives
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...which one is interested; it is unfortunate when a man is obliged to take more on his shoulders than he should attempt because other freer men will not. What is the remedy? Make sure that the man appointed is not already burdened with more than he can carry. Strive to bring out more men in each class available for offices by a wider selection of committees and the like in the early part of the life of the class and have more respect for the man himself...
...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; if we do not bring this about, people think something is wrong. We take satisfaction in Burr's staying out of the game for the good of the team, while the Yale Alumni Weekly criticizes Burch's playing...
...make the best of our resources. At present our object is to beat Yale in football, and as long as undergraduates are united upon that point, there is no need for digressions upon hypothetical instances whose accomplishment we cannot yet welcome even if they were practically possible. Let us strive to attain the end which appeals to the great majority, and let any reforms work out gradually, if the need of them is generally felt...
...relations between journalism and politics are more closely related than any other two branches of human activity. Journalism tends to make politics and politics make government, which is a high enough object for any man to strive to improve. Politics and journalism go hand in hand, and the one reacts upon the other. A low condition of politics means a low condition of journalism and vice versa. If we are endeavoring to reach politics through journalism the educated man should as soon as possible eliminate the disturbing quality of personality. Personality should be subordinated to the ideal, and we should...
...need to go far afield for models. Flandrau's "Harvard Episodes," although dealing, as he says, with but a small corner of a very big place, show a keenness of insight which the undergraduate writer, even though he may not attain quite to it, would do well to strive after...