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...have learned here the primer lessons of trench fighting will find those lessons not without their value when they undertake battle in France. It is within conceivability that some men now undertaking intensive training at other, more governmentally favored camps, may have some of their lessons to unlearn before they begin to learn...
...service to the class and the University. Of all the major sports it holds forth to the novice the best chance for development and success, a chance oftentimes better than that of the man with training who is handicapped by the wrong ways he has learned and must unlearn. The opportunity, because of disregard now, draws dangerously near an obligation, especially in a class which has started as well as 1917, and has a record to uphold. Irrespective or previous record, however, it is a shameful titling--to be turning out fifty less candidates for the Freshman crew than...
...ultimately prominent oars in college, no small part have received school training. The one drawback so far as these are concerned has been that their grounding is often of a different character than the principles they are taught in the college eights, and consequently they have to unlearn and assimilate anew. In coaching crews from the Boston schools the B. A. A. rowing authorities have the opportunity of rendering a distinct service to Harvard by starting novices on practically the same lines of coaching to which they will be subjected after entrance...
...wrong ideas that we have of the distinctions between men. The first thing we learn in geography is that we are civilized and that many of the other races are barbarians whom we are indeed to pity but not to regard as brothers. A good school in which to unlearn this idea is the Midway Plaisance at Chicago. There we see all sorts of men side by side and we see that really they are all the same. The Religious Congress was really an educational congress. If no one there learned anything new about...
Miller, No. 5, has evidently rowed in single sculls and has to unlearn much; fails to sit up to his work and swings back...