Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Referring to your editorial on fencing in Saturday's issue, I think a few words may justly be said in defence of the maintenance of intercollegiate matches in what is essentially a gentleman's sport, and one which should hold a high place among athletics at Harvard...
...essay, "A Plea for Leisure," recognizes a real need in college life that is often lost sight of in our discussions of three-year degrees, and incentives to work. "Leisure," the author says, "means a time for quiet reading, thinking and talking." Emphatically it does not mean a time of stagnation. Neither is it time taken away from study. A boy entering college is at a very impressionable, formative period. We, the teaching force, should find means to stir him intellectually, to rouse his ambition to do, and should also give him time to think, for all the new ideas...
...purpose of retrogressive re-education for men who had obtained the degree of Ph.D. His plans were to have these men met by Freshman advisors and conducted through a course of re-education. Men who knew everything about subjects which nobody else knew anything about would be taught to think like other people. In this way they might at the end of a full course, be turned out youths of promise who were, indeed, likely to fulfill that promise...
There is a good deal of feeling around College that basketball should be abolished as an intercollegiate sport at Harvard, because some men claim that they think the game, as it is played today, is bad. But these same men say that intercollegiate basketball should be allowed. What I want to know is, what the difference might be between the game as played between two colleges and the game as played between two classes? In my opinion if the game is dropped as an intercollegiate sport, the Athletic Committee should at least be consistent and abolish it entirely...
...roughness, and also doubles the difficulty of the referee's duties. By preventing dribbling it would improve the game more than a hundred per cent., and I am pretty certain that it would only take a little pressure to cause the Committee to abolish it. I should think that it would be much simpler, better, and pleasanter to try to better the sport through the Rules Committee than to hurt it by abolishing it; and I hope, at least, that this suggestion will meet with due consideration. R. P. JORDAN...