Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mass meeting tonight is of the utmost importance to the University. Not only is there the Harvard spirit to awaken, but also all must learn the cheers and songs necessary for success. The two lower classes have not heard them, and the Seniors and Juniors will do well to relearn the many verses of the songs...
...important positions automatically impose the necessary restrictions. For instance, Yale forbids--and Princeton proposes to--one man from holding two major sport managerships. Rarely, if ever, has there been a two "H" manager. The results of artificially limiting activities will be a decrease in competition, tending to lower the standards of the positions...
Three new Freshman club crews were formed yesterday afternoon at a meeting of all men from 1922 who had been rowing on eights lower than the third. The change from four to three club crews was made in order to promote keener competition and further shifts will be made from time to time before the regatta to make the crews as closely matched as possible...
...what lifts these activities from the level of social amusements to training of the highest order, the enormous value of which will become apparent as soon as the student is turned loose upon the world and is required to face it. The present movement at Yale will so lower the standard of these competitions that a great deal of their value will be removed. There are always more "big" jobs than there are men with the requisite ability to fill them--and this is particularly true in college. That is why we so frequently see a few men holding several...
These figures compare favorably with both Princeton and Yale. At the former college, 27 per cent, of the upperclassmen are candidates for a major sport team, and the figure is slightly lower for Yale...