Word: combativeness
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...Hemenway Gymnasium at 8 tonight. The Crimson is seriously handicapped in the lighter weights by the absence of Captain H. B. Walker, who is in the infirmary, but the heavier classes have shown a strength which will be hard for the lighter Engineers to combat. The Tech grapplers have had some intensive work under Coach "Cyclone" Burns who has a reputation for developing a fast team, so it will be on this agility that they will pin their hopes against the stronger Crimson combination...
...Charles W. Elliot, who inaugurated voluntary chapel and the now widely copied elective system, Harvard has stood for individualism among the students. It makes no attempt to establish an invariable type, either intellectual, religious, or social, to which all must conform or be rejected. Strong and hard to combat are the influences which shame individuality, in matters of thought, dress or manner. Freshman regulations tend to destroy it as well as the prevalent habit of scoffing at anything new or different. No real need of such regulations exists: in the past have not Harvard Freshman classes prospered without them...
...Student Council, at its meeting on of taking steps to combat not only misinformation of the schools concerning the University, but also a certain amount of misrepresentation which has been noticeable in the past. The meeting tonight is hoped to bring out workable suggestions for the committee to be guided by in combatting this evil without incurring the charge of propagandizing...
...recent growth of an unfavorable attitude toward Harvard at Exeter and Andover, and the low esteem, in which Harvard is held throughout the west have caused considerable comment and discussion as to why these conditions exist. The University has done much to combat the situation by modifying the entrance requirements and breaking down, by sane publicity, the barrier of misunderstanding which is keeping away many desirable students from other parts of the country. Problems that naturally arise in this connection awaken in turn a train of further questions, but may be classed in general under a variety of headings...
...rarely been able to not more than the third places which must come to it when the respective teams are allowed but two men in each event. Both teams have been spared from even more humiliating disaster only by the efforts of their captains; and both have had to combat the poor spirit and breaches of training which go with discouraging scores...