Word: ways
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...best way to make the American people more interested in scholarship than in athletics is by proving that our prize scholars, even more than our prize athletes, represent the type of men for which there is public need. The competitions must be so arranged that the prize winners justify the selection by their subsequent life. But have our prize winners done as much for the public as it has a right to expect? That the men who have won scholastic distinction at Harvard have later won more than their proportionate share of honor in the outside world has been shown...
...players on the second team, an organization distinct from the first squad and composed of men of less skill, should be given the insignia of "H 2nd" while those men on the first squad who are the substitutes for the first team are given no outward recognition in the way of insignia for their labors, unless they play in the final game of the year? No one questions the right of the second team to some tangible reward. No winning University team has ever been developed without the aid of a good second team and the stronger the second team...
After all the first concern of an institution of learning is to provide intellectual training. There are ways and ways of bringing this about, of course, but the fundamental way on which Harvard University as well as most of the universities of today was founded, is to provide a wholesome and keen enthusiasm for serious mental effort for the sake of the people who enter its doors. Other activities and aspects of the life have their value, largely in proportion to the moderation with which they are practiced, but it remains for the intellectual efforts and ambitions...
...permission was secured to make a trip into the Middle West at Christmas time, but it was fairly well understood at the time that the granting of the privilege should by no means be considered a precedent for future organizations. The trip last year was a success in every way. Musically, the clubs were considerably above the average and the trip afforded a good opportunity for the graduates and others interested in Harvard in the communities they visited to hear them. It will be just as well to postpone another trip for a few years and to take advantage...
Although many changes and alterations of universal suffrage have been suggested, these are not advantageous because this principle lies at the bottom of our system of government. One way to render this plan more efficient is to reduce the number of nominees for whom one man may vote. On every ballot now presented there is a long list of men, many of whom are in all probability entirely unknown to the voter. If there are but five men to be elected, the voter is sure to be able to choose more competently. This system has proved successful wherever...