Word: system
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certain professors as advisors of the freshman class both in the choice of college studies and in all matters of student interest. We cannot commend this innovation too highly since it guards against one of the most considerable-in fact almost the only important evil of the elective system-the possibility of immature choices...
...those already familiar with Harvard customs the system of voluntary prayers needs no explanation or recommendation. To those, however, who are as yet strangers at Cambridge a word on this subject may be said. The system they will find here in vogue is of course new to them. They have hitherto been unused to perfect freedom, and religion has doubtless been more of an obligation than a privilege. They hear the Chapel bell with a consciousness that it rather invites than summons them, and for a moment they hesitate in the exercise of their duty. They forget, perhaps, that...
...CRIMSON urged an innovation in the conduct of freshman class meetings, which, when put in practice, proved to be a beneficial change. We refer to the election of temporary instead of permanent captains for the various freshman athletic teams. The advantages of this scheme are obvious. By the old system the election of freshman officers was often to say the least, hasty and illconsidered, and as a result the various teams were more or less handicapped in their subsequent work. By the choice of temporary captains, however, this particular difficulty may be obviated, for if these captains prove inefficient their...
JACOB WENDELL, Jr., Sec.LAWN TENNIS.- The tennis courts on Holmes and Jarvis, are now ready for use. The system of charges will be the same as last year. The cash rates for play are as follows: Singles, dirt courts, 20 cents per player, grass courts, 25 cents per player; doubles, dirt courts 15 cents per player, grass courts 20 cents per player. Season tickets good for the whole college year may be obtained for $5.00 at the Co-operative Society store, or from the man in charge of the courts. Coupon tickets will be on sale next Monday...
...more attention here than at our rival college, and that therefore "the real cause of our lack of superiority in athletics (not our inferiority) is the greater earnestness and higher kind of work done here." The second takes a different ground and attributes our ill success to our social system. It argues that the athletics of the freshman class have their interests turned aside by their election to a sophomore society, "which takes his time and strength away from his athletics." This leads to a state where "athletics are in the hands of a chosen minority-chosen upon a social...