Word: branches
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Team 18, Mug-hunters: F. W. Branch '10, Capt., E. Angell '11, H. C. Blanchard '09, B. T. Butler '11, L. H. Cushing '11, G. C. Kiseaddon Sp., E. V. Long '10, D. S. Starring '10, F. L. Steele '10, A. C. Townsend '11, W. L. White '10, J. C. Wilby...
...this year its proposed remedy for the situation; its desire to improve the scholarship whose pre-eminence is shared by no other institution. We were, therefore, well prepared for President Eliot's suggestion, made in the report published this morning, to allow but two intercollegiate contests in any one branch of sport...
...element in the athletic problem now under discussion, something ought to be said in behalf of the swimming team, and of swimming as a college interest. To be sure, little is heard of this branch of the minor sports, but that is mainly due to the lack of any University swimming pool, an institution which is needed, for obvious reasons, just as much as a new gymnasium. The swimming team has always been as much handicapped for want of a place in which to practice, as would be the University football team if it were confined throughout its season...
...best preparation for a journalistic career for the college man is a study and practice of English composition and a thorough general culture in the best sense of the term. Specialization in art, music or some other branch of culture with a view to being a critic in this branch is not desirable; on the other hand, what is essential is a love for writing, a keen imagination and enthusiasm...
Besides the main office, there are five branches: the Sailors' branch in the Battery, the East Side branch, the West Side branch, and branches in Brooklyn and Harlem. The Sailors' branch deals with the impositions practiced upon seamen, and has done much in the last twenty years to raise the legal standard of the sailor. The East and West Side divisions both practice among foreigners and the lowest classes, and do much good in settling the petty cases of the neighborhood. With these objects in view, and partly to discourage the litigious spirit among the lower classes, the purpose...