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...responsibility for constantly falling short of success should be placed rather on the general scheme of management than on the head coach of each particular season. It is generally admitted that the principal fault of our football policy is lack of permanence. This will continue as long as the selection of the head coach rests upon the judgment of the captain alone. It is fundamental that change in control brings change of policy, and the first step in the direction of permanency in coaching is to procure permanency in appointment. Now it has been suggested that a permanent committee composed...
...choice of both head coach and field coach should not lie entirely with the captain. A suggestion which we print in another column is one of the best attempts to solve the problem which has been offered. The Athletic Committee is obviously not much better qualified to select a coach than the captain; but this committee could surely pick a number of graduate football players who would be more permanent than the body which appointed them, and who would insure a more unified and less spasmodic coaching system than we have enjoyed in the past...
...will seriously defend the practice of choosing courses with a view to securing a degree along the lines of least resistance. However lightly men refer to the subject in conversation, a careful examination of most schedules will bring out the fact that the great majority select their studies with some higher motive than that of securing a passing grade. But it is equally true that there is a legitimate use for the so-called "snap" courses. When properly intermingled with solid subjects they afford a relaxation, and at the same time have a certain intrinsic value. If a business...
...order to attain the highest efficiency, we believe that all three colleges should agree to select two teams for debates on the same night at the most convenient time of the year. Since this arrangement cannot be made for this year, we hope that Yale will consent to the proposed modification, and give Harvard a basis for taking a definite stand on the question...
...technical qualities of the compositions submitted were passed upon by the head of the musical department and by men prominently connected with undergraduate musical affairs. The rhythm and swing, equally necessary in a football song, were judged by prominent members of 1907 and 1908, who spared no pains to select the most suitable song...