Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entries for the class games close with today. As yet the entry list is not nearly as large as it should be to make the games the success of former years. Evidently many of the new candidates are hanging back through distrust of their own ability. They should, however, reflect that every year numbers of men win points at the spring games, and in some cases make the team, who have had absolutely no previous experience in track athletics. Indeed, if only the members of last year's team could be depended on, there would be little prospect of success...
...date of the Senior class meeting draws near, we urge all Seniors to reflect seriously on the problems presented to their consideration. They must remember that they are to decide, not for themselves alone, but possibly for future classes. A college custom once established, even if by a few classes only, is hard to break. The moral is, establish a good custom. Tuesday night the Senior class may "make history," so to speak. The Tree exercises are one of the chief features of the chief day of our college course. Let every Senior, therefore, spend some time, even...
...newspaper of today is unsparingly condemned for revealing to us so many of the horrors and unpleasant things of life. We forget that the press is a mirror which should reflect the community just as it is. But the American press is not today actuated by the purpose to tell men the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The mirror is warped and shows us wrong in an utterly distorted form. The journalist's life is one of splendid opportunity, for the press today is sorely in need of men who will deny their pocketbook to maintain...
...nine must wake up and show more enthusiasm than it has. It must realize before it is too late the real importance of the contest. If freshman debating is not to be given up the debaters must prove that they are competent to speak in a way that will reflect credit upon the University, and the class must show that it is interested enough to support their representatives. The main support must of course come from this class, and it will speak but poorly for the class spirit of the Freshmen if there are many empty seats tonight...
...Sayre '98, and W. B. Parker '97, were somewhat delayed in their work: First, owing to a caange in the method of choosing the men, and second, on account of Sayre's illness. They are nevertheless thoroughly prepared to debate the question in a way to reflect credit upon themselves and Harvard...