Word: working
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Eugen Kuehnemann has written a book giving an account of President Eliot's life work as head of the University. The work also contains a study of the President's educational and social philosophy, his life, public activities, and his personality. It will be published May 15 under the title, "Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University...
With only two weeks more work on the river before the class races which come on Saturday, May 15, the orders of the upperclass crews have been repeatedly changed and are still unsettled, although it seems likely that they will be permanently settled by the beginning of next week. All the crews have been greatly handicapped by the fact that the "John Harvard" has been away for over two weeks in order to have a new boiler put in, which made it impossible for Coaches Brown and Stevenson to coach their crews for long distances, as the "Veritas" was used...
...Jackson has gone in at No. 3, and Ellis rowed No. 2 yesterday in the absence of Peabody, who is expected back today. This crew seems to have finally settled upon a good order, the body swing is good with a strong finish, and all the work is very snappy, although at times the crew is not well together...
...Princeton series. There has as yet been almost no opportunity to try out the infield in a game. Injury or illness has prevented its playing together in any settled order. Moreover, in the Virginia game, when it was nearest intact, there were few chances for fielding and no work with men on bases. This week the cold and rainy weather games and warm weather are badly needed during the next two weeks...
...this, it seems, would frequently apply. The current issue, at any rate, is not above mediocrity. Not that the contributors always lack ideas; in two cases at least subjects of importance are broached, on which undergraduate opinion just now is desirable. The real trouble seems to be that the work is not carefully thought to or logically arranged, and that the product of an idle moment as allowed, without revision, to creep into print. Under such circum stances the business of the reviewer is all too tame, for he must point out blunders which the writers themselves might easily have...