Word: working
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Perry, the first speaker of the evening, after telling a number of amusing anecdotes, congratulated the scholars in behalf of the Faculty. The Faculty, it must be remembered, gave you these "A's" and "B's", and it realizes that it is not chance and accident, but honest work that has earned this praise. No one is so proud and so glad as the Faculty who know you best and whose only hope is that in after-life, winning or losing, you may find friends by your side...
Many things must be decided on by the authorities before any actual work can be begun, but the most important preparation is the collection of the necessary funds. When this is finished it will not take the Corporation long to decide on the situation and the plans for construction...
...mental life. The trend of physical education is along three lines: first, toward perfecting the body as a machine; second, toward obtaining individual distinction in different varieties of athletics and gymnastics; and third, toward the cultivation of group games and team-play, where, the individual learns not only to work in harmony with others, but often to sacrifice his own chance of winning distinction when it is for the advantage of the team. In the opinion of many well-qualified judges, athletic team contests properly conducted furnish the best opportunity a school or college affords for the teaching of applied...
...maintained before the country by the conspicuous success of its graduates. The changes in the methods of education in the last 40 years have emphasized the value of the practical side of modern education. President Eliot pointed out many ways in which the alumni could assist in this work...
...first suitable opportunity for the members of the University to show their appreciation for the work of Harvard's youngest successful playwright comes next Tuesday night. Mrs. Fiske will appear in "Salvation Nell," by E. B. Sheldon '08, at the Majestic Theatre next week, and on the second night of the engagement a sufficient number of seats have been reserved for all Harvard men who wish to attend. It is fitting for the Dramatic Club to take charge of this welcome for its founder and first president, and we feel sure that a large number of undergraduates will join...