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Also it is obviously impossible to select a championship team for any section. The game calls for too much physically from its players to make it possible to stage a sufficient number of games to decide a football championship. Players who have put forth all that they could muster against a traditional rival might show up stale against an inferior football team a week later. Certain games call for the supreme effort; others are merely football games to fill in a schedule. --The Outlook...
Among the pieces of advice gratuitously showered on the undergraduate none is more often repeated than that which urges him to select certain courses, regardless of their intrinsic value in his scheme of education, for the sake of listening to some particularly famous member of the Harvard Faculty. If he does so, and does not take the trouble to gain a personal acquaintance with his professor he is failing in half his avowed purpose. Relations of this sort often prove of more value than the actual work of the courses, and by being continued in after life may become...
...reference to the Adamson Bill Mr. Palue excuses "legislation before inves- tigation," only on the ground that investigation can not tell us as much as experience can. Now if we cannot anticipate experience with accurate investigation of present conditions and thus both evede disasters and select our lines of progress, the whole modern idea of enlisting experts for the scientific study of national economic problems may as well go to the floor and the nation rub on as best it may in hit-or-miss fashion. Why look before you leap when that means "belogging and postponing the issue"? Nations...
Competitors are at liberty to select their own subjects; but these must be approved in advance by the committee on Bowdoin Prizes. No essay offered by a graduate may contain more than 15,000 words, it being understood that parts of doctoral dissertations are eligible...
...afternoon. Four companies, formed from the members of the course in military science and tactics, will assemble on the roadway east of James Smith Hall at 1.30 o'clock. Captain Cordier will have direction over 260 men. Company commanders upon assembling their companies will assign the members to squads select temporary squad leaders and impart instruction in the school of the soldier and the squad...