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Professor Merriman has a practical suggestion along these lines. He proposes a general examination at the end of the college course for which one should be preparing himself throughout his college course. Without denying the advantages of the present system of specific examination, he does maintain that it could be made far more effective still in combination with a more general test along somewhat different lines. The amount of information that the average American college graduate possesses, he believes, is not nearly so inadequate as is his ability to utilize that information, and to discover and make good...
...Harvard Aeronautical Society this evening in the Union is of great importance to the large number of men in the University who profess an interest in the navigation of the air. The attendance at this meeting will directly decide whether or not the society is to continue along the lines it has already laid down for its future course. A high standard has been set; it now remains to be seen whether that standard can be maintained...
...Yale, Harvard and Princeton had, after 1891, an abundance of coaching material from which to draw, and the practice was established of appointing a head coach to be assisted by a succession of visiting graduates through the season, the men being invited to coach along special lines, and their attendance being secured at that stage in the season's development when their especial work would be most effective. This practice has endured at Yale up to the present time, and has worked admirably, all things considered. The coaches who teach position-play come very early. The more valuable...
...capacity to plan an offense that shall be interchangeable, well-concealed, speedy, and powerful. It calls for the ability to plan a system of team-defence which shall take care of all possible plays of your opponents. It comprehends the knowledge of how a team ought to be brought along, and by what stages. In a word, it is the regulation and control of the whole coaching policy for the season. This work at Yale has been performed by Walter Camp. He created the Yale system, and his work has long represented, to my thinking, forty per cent for Yale...
...team should win on Saturday. The team is well coached and well led; it is full of the right sort of spirit, and has brains; it is in excellent physical condition, and has great physical capacity; lastly it is determined to win. Malcolm Donald '99, the second speaker, talked along the same lines, emphasizing the importance of Coach Haughton and the Committee on Athletics. This Committee has always kept in close touch with the undergraduates and will continue to do so as long as Dean Briggs is chairman...