Word: though
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...economy; but in applying the theory to any one team, committees, coaches, managers, players, and captains have often been inclined--quite naturally--to consider everything before economy and to rely luxuriously on the great sums collected at games as more than covering the bills. What I have just said, though general, is by no means universal. Instances of courageous effort to keep expenses down are not infrequent among managers, and may at times be discerned even in captains and coaches. Moreover, there has been marked improvement in these matters within a very few years. The use of automobiles has been...
...remarks of players; and student players, who get their training directly and indirect from professional players, are constantly tempted to do what they know to be done-- and done without censure--by the heroes of the American and National Leagues. We like to belive that recent Harvard teams, though by no means perfect, have honestly tried to resist such temptations and to play a clean game
...subject of athletics President Lowell urges against the over-emphasis of intercollegiate matches to the neglect of the physical welfare of the mass of students, and sounds a warning against the evils of commercialism. Perhaps the least enthusiastic portion of the report is this discussion of undergraduate athletics, which, though optimistic in tone, shows clearly the desire for a better adjustment of collegiate endeavor...
...shorter, "Mary Hunters' Chair" by G. P. Davis, cleverly indicates the romance of two middleaged people as perceived by their children. C. G. Hoffman's "Yesterday" is one of those nondescript pieces of prose which seek to describe an atmosphere and a mood, but which, in spite of labored though sometimes felicitous phrasing, leave no mark on the mind...
...exchanging professors. Among the "recording" articles is none about "the "new Medicine" by Dr. Richard Cabot an extremely clear summary. Another is a description of the Medical School, which reads like the Catalogue and is not especially timely. The account of our vanished library by Mr. Grinder is substantial, though it fails to tell as who Gore was, and calls Dr. Thaddeus W. Harris an etymologist instead of an entomologist. Other articles "of record" concern the Harvard Cadet Corps and our foreign language societies. The inference of the Illustrated in exercised by pertinent editorial articles and contributions, such...