Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best it can, the debt of gratitude which all Harvard men owe to Mr. Lehmann in return for what he has done, particularly for the rowing interests of the University and in general for the good of college sport in America. It has fallen to Mr. Lehmann to teach us all the lesson of true sportsmanship: to treat opponents with fairness and courtesy, and to strive to the end that the best team...
...first place, fast as the English stroke may be, and well qualified as Mr. Lehmann may be to teach it, it is practically an impossibility for any oarsmen to make a very radical change in their system of rowing and master all the fine points of a new stroke all in one year. The Harvard crew is a fairly strong one physically, and we believe the rowing methods in vogue at Cambridge and Oxford to be the best adapted to eight-oared crews. But it must be remembered that Cornell and Yale, especially the latter, have crews which are excellent...
...Lehmann began by speaking of the true function of a University. A question that is too often asked, asid he, is, "Do the universityes fit men for practical life?" This arises from the mistaken conception that the purpose of the University is to teach men the useful and practical in life. On the contrary the true object of a university is to educate the minds committed to its charge in the broadest manner possible, to store the mind with knowledge and culture. Like life, the university teaches not directly but by indirection. In after experience with the world...
...Club will not only be an occasion of considerable interest on account of the wide-spread reputation of those who are to take part, but it is gotten up to provide funds for a decidely worthy object. Although at Radcliffe College, where many of the students are preparing to teach, there has always been a need for scholarships, the college has never yet been able to offer a single regular annual scholarship with a permanent endowment fund. Whatever aid of this kind the students have received, has been given from year to year by individuals. With the proceeds of Wednesday...
...Service Reform Club; and her example was followed by all the leading universities. Harvard should continue to do her full share of the work as she has done in the past. The main object of the club is to awaken interest in the reform among the students and to teach them its methods, by means of public lectures, smoke talks, and reform publications; so that when they leave college they may take an intelligent and active interest in the work...