Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After one experience with a world-beating Harvard team that was almost universally expected to swamp a supposedly weak Yale team in 1910, I want to offer just a word to the undergraduates, with the exception of the Seniors: to them, I am sure, 1910 taught a valuable lesson...
...charge of singing at the football games as indicated in the communication printed elsewhere in this issue seems singularly calculated to attain the end desired. Musical composition like all other forms of artistic endeavor does not flourish under competitive stimulus with a set occasion for its object. We may want new songs, but it is doubtful if they can best be obtained in the old way. On the other hand we realize that no amount of enthusiasm on the part of the students singing a song can contribute anywhere nearly as much toward the perfection of the performance as training...
...time for the crowd at the Holy Cross game. President Lowell last Tuesday had the honor of being the first person to cross in an automobile. Although the roadway is passable now, henceforth nobody will be allowed on the bridge until it is formally opened. The contractors want as little hindrance as possible during these last few days of rush work...
...University and the museum he gave more than a million and a half, and more will ultimately revert to that cherished institution. He wrote: 'I want to go down as the man of science and not to be temporarily known by a kind of cheap noteriety as an American millionaire...
...Agassiz one day in 1867 met Charles W. Eliot, professor of chemistry in the Institute of Technology, and said to him: 'Eliot, I am going to Michigan for some years as superintendent of the Calumet & Hecla mines. I want to make money; it is impossible to be a productive naturalist in this country without money. I am going to get some money if I can and then I will be a naturalist. If I succeed, I can then get my own papers and drawings printed and help my father at the Museum.' The story of his struggle to make...