Word: wisely
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...realize of course the earnest attempt that the captains of our teams have made to supply from their own knowledge and exertions the places filled by professional trainers in more favored colleges. Probably their service has been as wise and their supervision as careful as amateurs could possibly have given. It is also true that the overshadowing importance of football in the public interest would be likely to divert the bulk of the coaching away to that sport. It is hard, we know, to find money to foster these minor sports which bring in no gate receipts, and Harvard...
Unusual interest attaches to the fall production of the Dramatic Club. To some extent this is due to the success of the performances last year, but to a far greater extent to the wise selection of the play to be produced. "The Scarecrow," by Percy MacKaye '97, whose "Jeanne d'Arc," "Sappho and Phaon," and "Mater," have been seen in New York and elsewhere, is undoubtedly Mr. MacKaye's most distinguished work. Though published in 1908, it has never been performed, and the Dramatic Club, therefore, has the distinction of presenting for the first time a play which is considered...
Francis Brown President of Union Theological Seminary; honored in two continents for his labors on the Old Testament, which modern learning has made new; wise and trusted Christian teacher of whose attainments his nation is proud...
Among his other wise sayings Aristotle remarked that man is by nature a social animal; and it is in order to develop his powers as a social being that American colleges exist. The object of the undergraduate department is not to produce hermits, each imprisoned in the cell of his own intellectual pursuits, but men fitted to take their places in the community and live in contact with their fellow...
Among the prominent men who have spoken in the Union during the past year are President Eliot, Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, Hon. J. S. Wise, Mr. Cameron Forbes, Postmaster General George von L. Meyer '79, Hon. Beekman Winthrop '97, Hon. Charlemagne Tower '72, Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith and Mr. John Kendrick Bangs. The lecture on "Education as a Career," by President Eliot was given in Sanders Theatre in order that all who desired, whether or not members of the Union, might attend...