Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Each candidate should personally present himself to the Committee of Selection before a final decision is made, unless especially excused by the Committee, itself; in which case, as statement of the reason should be sent to the Trustees...
...27th, I venture to express a prevalent opinion with regard to the CRIMSON'S attitude toward the proposed "Harvard Daily." The instinct of self-defense must, of course, have prompted the CRIMSON to reply to the severe but true attack of the Harvard Magazine, but neither instinct nor reason can excuse the weakness and evasiveness of that reply. Literary pouting and stamping of the feet not only are no defense, but argue for the truth of the opposide view. The fact that the CRIMSON enjoys a monopoly as a college newspaper is no defense of its editorial policy--as weak...
...tuck contest from start to finish the winning streak of the 1922 nine was finally broken by the tiger freshmen in the twelfth inning of the game at Princeton Saturday. Failure to bunch hits when they were needed was the reason for the 5-4 score against the Crimson yearlings...
...Universities have decided that the Latin phrase-book is too hard for the American brain. It is difficult and unnecessary. The real reason that our Universities are throwing over Latin is that Latin has been badly taught, and it is easier to throw Latin over than to bring in good teaching. But what a calamitous state for the learned...
...must be deduced. There must be something in the atmosphere created at Harvard which stimulates men's minds to do big things. Unconsciously, the idea scoffed at by many people, forces are at work continually around us which make for the production of great and brave men. And the reason Harvard is such a good training ground is because it is an exact replica, on a small scale, of the outside world. Here one meets all the outward indifference that one finds when he starts in on a business career. Here one can make a success in any number...