Word: developement
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...comes from the Southland, where the big league training camps hold forth. Day by day bulletins come north relating the smallest details of the home team's preparation for the season. Never do pennant prospects appear as bright as in March, when veteran pitchers stage comebacks and rookie shortstop develop into capable regulars without the least difficulty. But all is not sunshine for the team's supporters, for is not Vic Aldridge, one of the best pitchers in the league, still a holdout? Not until he settles his dispute with the treasurer over an increase in salary, will...
...butter can be applied to American schools in more than one sense. . . . What we need is a good mental training, an accurate and thorough habit of mind, not a frittering away of the attention by a multitude of small matters of which the pupil does not get enough to develop consecutive thought. Too much attention has been paid to making education attractive by smoothing the path as compared with inducing strenuous voluntary effort...
...accomplish too much and as a result achieve nothing well. "What we need is a good mental training, an accurate and thorough habit of mind; not a frittering away of the attention by a multitude of small matters of which the pupil does not get enough to develop consecutive thought...
Speculating on the future of militarism in general, he said significantly: "The Reichswehr is incapable of being used to wage war as this has been understood in the past. But how the art of waging war will develop in the future we do not know, so all we can do is keep our eyes open and watch war's further development...
...crowded the Varsity Club to hear W. J. Bingham '16 make his last speech as head track coach. "In the last two years," he said, "we have learned many things--first and foremost, that in order to assure the success of a track team it is necessary to develop not stars but a large body of runners, taking men who perhaps have never run before and, overcoming their initial discouragements, bring before them the motto of the Harvard track team--Progress." Following Mr. Bingham, C. W. Martin, his successor as head track coach, made a speech in which he stated...