Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...have had so little time today to give careful thought to your question of this morning that I hesitate to express an opinion. On the whole, however, I think that it would be fairest, considering all of the teams engaged in play, and best for the interest of sport, if teams were made up wholly of undergraduates. B. S. HURLBUT...
...deserves serious consideration, for some of its advantages are obvious. Among other things, it would diminish the number of cases of doubtful eligibility and would tend to keep down the age of the players in a way that would be desirable. We still speak of intercollegiate athletics and we think of our teams as representing, primarily, Harvard College (including the Scientific School), rather than Harvard University. The same, however, does not hold true of some other institutions whose circumstances are not similar to ours, and the study of law is no more a reason in itself against playing football than...
...Committee's plan calls for the holding of Commencement one week earlier than has been customary. Therefore the Yale game in Cambridge would come one week ahead of the game in New Haven, or two days sooner than it does under the present arrangement. This, I think, disposes of the chief prop on which the communication rested. There remains the conflict of the boat race and Phi Beta Kappa Day. That problem is still unsettled, and if enough Phi Beta Kappa men object to the conflict, the boat race might be put off till Friday. This would still gather...
...started. In advancing the ball the backs followed their interference fairly well, but they did not turn in soon enough, and in running back or making a big arc were frequently tackled with no gain. The team lacked snap and fight, and fumbled frequently. Moreover, the men seemed to think that when the ball had been carried to the opponents' three yard line, their work was done...
...College who try to be popular and influential, some who lead quiet and retired lives; he knows that men of both kinds succeed and fail in after life. But whether in solitude or society, there is one good rule for the man of intellectual life to follow: "Never think of yourself." After entering college a man no longer belongs to himself, he is joined to this ancient and serviceable University, and belongs to the living and dead of its company. He cannot live to himself-and when the time comes, he cannot die to himself...