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Dates: during 1880-1889
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With the close of the present term at the Christmas recess, Harvard leaves off an old and begins a new athletic season. During the next few months crews, nines, and track athletes will be carefully trained for the outdoor work of the spring, and everything will be done by the management of each organization to make its work successful. Of this we feel assured. But there are requisites of success other than the conscientious work of captains and managers, necessary as these are. Men must be found who are willing to train earnestly and long, else we cannot even hope...
...time or another, there is ice on Holmes Field, formed there from the melting snow, and if the field were overflowed there could be skating there the greater part of the winter. But if the baseball management or college authorities object to this why could it not be done to Norton's Field? It is much larger, there is no grass to hurt, and it would take comparatively little money to have it made to hold water, and indeed there is always quite a large amount of water after every rain. This would have a great advantage over the ponds...
...teaching is to teach the subjects which are to be taught in the colleges and high schools and academies in the best manner we can. In Germany the teacher shows how the subject should be taught. In regard to the preparation of the teacher, he thought Harvard had done her fair share of the work during the last thirty years. The methods of teaching the principal subjects have fundamentally changed at Harvard within twenty years, and I suppose it is the case in other colleges. If, therefore, we are right in our present methods, what good would...
...organizations. But the initiative in this matter must come from them, and here of course lies the difficulty. We are thoroughly aware that save in affairs of general management, it would be a delicate matter for our faculty to express their opinion of our athletics. It can be done, however, and that in a spirit of not even seeming interference. Something must certainly be done. A Harvard spirit stronger then ever before is now rife among graduates and undergraduates, and it can hardly be that this has failed to reach the faculty. If it has reached them it is their...
...Brazil is not greater than in the United States The United States, too, had a small population and a large territory at the beginning of the government. The Spanish Americans have proved by their commerce that they can make a republic successful. All the good that the emperor has done has been under a government practically republican...