Word: whole
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...books themselves seem real to him; he needs a dash of physical effort and even risk. And there is nothing, at present, except the more strenuous phases of athletics that can supply this want. If the college man's play looks to an outsider like the most earnest and whole-hearted thing that he ever does, it is because this play is at present his best substitute for "experience," and for that kind of "reality" which pain and hard training rub in. I take the development of athletics as a sign that the instincts of American college students are sound...
...done to unify and strengthen each squad and to insure more fairness in the selection of the leading crews. Coaches Herrick and Haines decided to spend most of their time with the University boats and the first 1919 crews but to devote. Monday of each week to the whole Freshman squad exclusively. At first the stroke was set very low, with the idea of getting the men to work together at the start of practice, four University eights were picked and the remainder divided into six club crews--there Eliot and three Thayer. In this way the men worked most...
...dinner will be held Friday night, after which the committees will discuss the eligibility rules of the three universities. The conference will be concluded on Saturday afternoon. The whole matter of professionalism will be taken up, and plan for a uniform code of eligibility rules for the three colleges arranged...
...main events, will be a five or six reel feature, supplemented by pictures of Harvard news in the Pathe Weekly. Both cider and beer will be served, as the members of the class decided at the written vote held last spring. The question was then finally settled for the whole four years of the class's undergraduate existence and there will be no further discussion on the subject...
...know his men by name, and this has necessarily tended to drive out the element of personal interest. Added to this, the professors have changed from men who had a philosophical interest in their students as well as in their subjects, to scientific experts who have devoted their whole energy to their subject and the best means of imparting it to others. Efficiency based on knowledge is nowadays sought more eagerly than wisdom, both by the professor and by the student. The result is that the instructor has become to the student more and more of a speaking text-book...