Word: working
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University hockey squad held a short practice yesterday afternoon on Hammond's Pond, Chestnut Hill. On account of the poor condition of the ice the work of the forwards was very erratic, but served to try out various defensive combinations. The first part of the practice consisted in individual work by the forwards in carrying the puck against several combinations of defensive candidates...
After this, two teams were chosen and a 20-minute game played. The snow, which had gradually accumulated on the ice, prevented the forwards of both sides from doing any effective work against the defence, and only one goal was scored. In the absence of Houston and Huntington all the candidates who reported for the positions of point and cover point were given a long try-out. Foster, Blackall, and Balch seemed the most effective in stopping the opposing for wards...
...Class Day officers. The first is that those men should be rewarded with offices who have in the past three and a half years done most for the class and for the College; the second is that the offices should go to the men best capable of doing the work required...
Every one of the nominees has had a more or less prominent part in the activities of the College. They have done their tasks partly, in some cases wholly, for the honor of Harvard without thought of personal glory. Men take up the extra-curriculum work for their interest in it, but to do it well requires unselfish devotion and often means the sacrifice of other more pleasant things. To have been nominated for class office is in itself a mark of recognition; and to be elected is the highest reward that the class can give for work well done...
...part of the officers elected today will have life tenure, others only through this year; but the duties of all the places are important and need the services of the best men. There is no other criterion of fitness than the work that the candidates have done here as undergraduates. Their qualities have been tried as thoroughly as such tasks can test the calibre of a man. The men are known personally or by reputation to most members of the class; there ought to be no cases in which lack of knowledge about the nominees is an excuse...