Word: developments
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...advisability of eliminating the minor sports in that respect. Is it the desire of the Faculty that, contrary to their former broad principles, they wish to confine interest in athletics to a few sports? Is this not a narrow, selfish policy? Perhaps they believe that the club system will develop and the interest will continue in that form. But you cannot expect this to happen by quick action; it takes a long time for it to develop and it can only be done by gradually working the one out of the other. The main interest that draws men to these...
...President Eliot has confined himself to single speeches on the subject, but as Godkin Lecturer for the current year, an appointment recently given him by the Corporation, he will probably develop the subject of "Municipal Government by Commission" more fully and present it in a series of addresses. The Godkin Lectureship was established in 1903 from a fund contributed mainly in small amounts from many sources as a memorial to Edwin Laurence Godkin, for a long time editor of the "Nation" and the "New York Post." Lectures on this foundation are to treat "The Essentials of Free Government...
...first boat Sargent has been rowing regularly at stroke since replacing Morgan on Monday. The difficulty will be to develop a stroke whose reach is naturally long enough and steady enough for the rest of the crew to follow easily. Taken as a whole, the boat runs smoothly, but there is still a tendency to row straight from the arms and lose the shoulder swing, and to rush the stroke immediately after the finish. The second boat, stroked by Reece, contains a powerful crew, which may possibly represent the University in the Henley regatta at Philadelphia the last...
...primary object of the conference is to present and discuss important questions of religion and social service of interest to college men, and to develop the religious life and interest in philanthropic work of the Eastern colleges and schools through an interchange of ideas and contact with leaders of thought in the field. Delegates are quartered in tents and dormitories and a baseball series, a tennis tournament, a track meet, a big fourth of July celebration, followed by an enormous bonfire, and inspiring religious meetings addressed by leaders of philanthropic and religious thought are some of the creatures...
This season promises to be more active than that of last year, when only one game was played, a tie with Yale, score 0 to 0. Some attempt was made last fall to develop a team, but at that time a number of good players were occupied with football. With the addition of those men this spring, and with the longer schedule, interest in association football is expected to be greater than in previous years...