Word: selection
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...committee, appointed by Captain Burr last month to select a coach, is composed of men who have had long and varied experience in Harvard athletics, and any choice which it might make must be considered as the result of expert opinion. We therefore do not hesitate to predict that the new coach will have the whole-hearted support of the University in his endeavors to produce a winning team...
From various opinions on the football season the usual compromise has resulted. The present captain has been allowed the sanction of the Athletic Committee in appointing a committee to select a head coach for next year and to act as an advisory board during the season. No permanency is guaranteed to any system except such as will be the natural result of a satisfactory season...
...appreciate the objections to the establishment of a permanent policy. Any Athletic Committee elected for one year is naturally unwilling to bind the committee of another year or a future football captain. Therein lies the fundamental fault of our athletics from a competitive standpoint. Those who select a coach who is defeated in his first year night support him again, but their power is gone as well as his. Another captain holds the floor, and another committee passes upon his recommendations. We must, therefore, look to this committee to conduct itself in such a manner that its members will...
...Professor W. W. Goodwin '51. President Eliot, and Professor Norton will speak on "Mrs. Agassiz and her Relations to Radcliffe College," and Professor Goodwin on "Mrs. Agassiz and Radcliffe College in Relation to the World at Large." In addition it is expected that some pupil of the select school for girls which Mrs. Agassiz once conducted for a short time in Cambridge will speak...
...connection with these lectures, a small collection of books handsomely bound in colored leather and vellum, printed and decorated under Mr. Cobden-Sanderson's personal supervision, are on public exhibition in the Treasure Room of Gore Hall, together with a few select works on book-binding and its history. This room will be open every afternoon during the next ten days from 2 until 5.30 o'clock...