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...task before it is a big one. It will take a large amount of pressure to correct certain of the tendencies which it is proposed to alter and it will not be done in a day. An innovation such as this will require no little time to arrive at the most effective working basis, and the results must be considered accordingly. The encouragement received from the Athletic Committee will be of great assistance in the early months, but eventually the Council will work into its own particular relations with undergraduate life. There is no reason why they should not prove...
...accounting and the like, followed by the more specialized courses leading directly to the business for which the student is fitting. A large annual income has been secured to assure to the school the resources necessary for providing for the new instructors to whom will be intrusted the task of developing a wide range of advanced courses...
...were called out soon after the mid-year examination period, and, after a small amount of preliminary work in the tank at the University boat house, went out on the Charles for the first time on February 21, about a month earlier, than last year. The most difficult task was the selection of a stroke. At the beginning of the season, E.C. Bacon '10, and C. Morgan, Jr., '08 were considered the most probable candidates for the position, but in March Sargent was tried out and since the 28th of that month has been stroking the crew regularly. To fill...
...nevertheless, that a man must necessarily renounce many of his possibilities in order to accomplish anything in this highly specialized world. His interests almost unavoidably contract: he cannot leave the main fine of his pursuit to wander off into devious ways, however alluring. But while engrossment in a chosen task does reclude the possibility of comprehensive self-development and activity, it is nevertheless true that if life is to be kept wholesome and happy, the sense of a wide horizon must not be lost. And it is just that sense of the wholeness of life including all the fragmentary individual...
...Andover, will preside, and the speakers and their subjects will be as follows: Professor E. C. Moore, "The Minister's Relation to the Christian Influence throughout the World"; Professor E. S. Drowne, "The Intellectual Opportunity of the Minister"; Rev. O. P. Gifford, D.D., "The Minister's Vision and Task"; Dean W. W. Fenn, "The Minister's Influence...