Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ticket is $5, and it admits the holder to all home games in football, baseball, and track, except those with Yale. If this price was raised to $7 or $8 would it not help the athletic treasury and would the number of holders decrease? I think not. C. H. SCHWEPPE...
...college man, Mr. Low said, must guard against certain attitudes of mind. He must not be indifferent, for indifference accomplishes nothing; he must not be continually critical, for destructive criticism destroys influence; he must not think himself superior to the man who has not had a college education, for in politics a man must be democratic; and lastly, he must be confident in the strength of the government he is to serve...
...subscription business, however, has become a nuisance. The Graduate Treasurer's reports show that the number of University teams which collect subscriptions has increased from two in 1898 to seven in 1904. Receipts from other sources have steadily increased during this time, and there is no reason to think we have yet reached the maximum. Expenses have increased, but not out of proportion to the receipts...
...Rugby, for each college has a team in each or tries to have. This, too, is a game in which men who are light upon their feet and have not a quarter of a ton of beef and brawn to their credit can play. Oxford men seem to think that nature has given something to men of medium weight, men of 160 pounds or thereabouts, which is the ideal weight for an oarsman or an all round athlete. Nor were these two all the games in progress. There were teams playing hockey, lacrosse and other games, and tennis and cricket...
...would be an important factor in the promotion of College spirit. If a man could drop into the Union during the evening and be sure of seeing old friends and making new ones, if he could sit with them around a table and smoke and sing, I do not think I exaggerate when I say that the Union Dining Room would be well filled, and, what is more to the point, the membership list of the club would grow at a rapid rate...