Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...finished the compulsory physical examination of the Freshmen. In making the examination this year he laid particular emphasis on the mechanical use of the human body. To do this he and his assistants have classified every Freshman examined into one of four groups. Group A includes those who use their body well. Group B includes those who carry their heads too far forward, but are otherwise all right. Group C includes those who need help in their body management, but who can be best helped by some good advice. Group D. includes those who handle themselves very badly...
...three University eights will be the only ones to row the full mile and seven-eights course between Cottage Farm Bridge and the Union Boat Club. All the other crews will use the one mile course extending from Cottage Farm Bridge to Harvard Bridge. The singles row will all be held on the half-mile upstream course by the Stillman Infirmary...
...squash courts have been completed at Randolph Gymnasium and are now ready for use. These six courts are on the third floor of the gymnasium, directly beneath them being five more to be finished by the first of next week...
Having heard so much lately the use of the word "soviet," I decided to look it up and find out its meaning. I was rather surprised to find that it meant nothing more than "committee," and I wondered why it had never been applied to our Congressional manner of doing business. Another translation of the word, making it mean "conference," made me wonder why, since they use the word so freely, the Boston "Transcript" and the New York "Times" do not speak of our present Industrial Soviet at Washington. Perhaps the word is reserved for those conferences or councils which...
...time that college men quit the use of terms which are coined for a popular purpose, and which only befog any possible intelligent consideration of issues. Let us discuss industrial representation in government instead of "soviet" government and cease this business of giving a dog a bad name and hanging him for it. As they used to ask, "Do you believe in man's divine nature or his descent from monkeys?" So now they ask, "Do you believe in American or Soviet government?" It should be the distinction of college men above non-college men, as trained thinkers, that they...