Word: learning
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...accomplish definite work and not spend their energies to no avail. Concentration is important, but interruptions to a man's work are bound to come--calls which he cannot refuse to hear. To meet these calls upon his time and yet continue his own work a man must learn thoroughly such lavishness as marked the life of Christ, lavishness which shrinks from no amount of work and is of one spirit with the lavishness...
President Eliot welcomed the visitors to Harvard, and spoke of what American athletes should learn from the English. In the first place, they should learn to prepare for athletic contests with a shorter period of training. Judging by English experience, training in American colleges covers a period unnecessarily long; and athletics are taken too much as hard work and not enough as genuine pleasure. In England men go into athletics primarily for pure sport, and are not inclined to overestimate the value of victory, as we are. We should also learn from the English to keep our games the same...
...Christian Association. Mr. Billings spoke of the changes in Harvard since his undergraduate days and especially of its growth from a college into a university. The greater size and scope of the university imposes new responsibilities up on men entering it; they are expected not simply to learn and acquire, but to give, to the life of the University and to the individual lives of men about them, their best physical, mental and spiritual ability...
...simply in imitating Christ. He gave the world his best; he took nothing he did not win; he was brotherly, and he sacrificed himself to Gethsemane's agony and Calvary's cross for men. If college men will strive after the ideal of the social Christ they will learn to live with the world and to serve the world...
...Glee, Mandolin, and Banjo Clubs will give a Yard concert in front of Matthews, this evening at 7.30. The special purpose of this concert is to give everyone a chance to learn the songs which will be sung at the game with Pennsylvania on Saturday. The Glee Club will lead the singing of these songs until they are familiar. As it will be dark at the concert everyone is urged to learn them by heart before that time. Later more songs will be printed, and learned in the same way; so that there will be a good list of them...