Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...infield or the outfield, the University must pull itself out of the state of lethargy into which it has dropped and consider. It is too easy to shriek accusations at the box score in the Sunday papers, and to criticize over a dinner table. Few men stop to think that it is the undergraduate body as a whole that is responsible for a team; if a better nine cannot be produced it is because the College has not the collective ability to furnish it, and to back it. And to back it! There lies the root of the present trouble...
...think any strict ruling would be detrimental because sometimes through accident or injury, a captain of one team may be called upon to fill the vacancy of the injured captain in another sport. I think the undergraduates who really pate in more than two or three sports. I think the undergraduates who really control the original selection of men at the head of undergraduate activities can be relied upon to distribute the positions in a way to accomplish the best results...
...Commenting on the plans for college R. O. T. C. units next year, the government bulletin has said, "The war has demonstrated conclusively that our colleges and universities furnish the best material for officers from civil life. A sound body, the ability to think clearly, and ideals of service, are part of what a college aims to give its students, and are the most important basic qualifications for an officer. In addition, practically every branch of knowledge has its military applications. In most cases a slight addition of material to a course, showing the military application of the principles taught...
...full of facts and pass them, but promptly forget all he has learned. College does not aim to inculcate a mass of detail which may be applied per se in after life--this is left for the technical school. The object of college is to teach a man to think; to give him a general well-rounded intellectual development which he may use in any field of human life. It should teach not facts, but how to find facts when they are needed. Yet the ordinary test in college from its very nature is limited to facts; the general examination...
...action of certain Harvard undergraduates in attempting to act as strike-breakers in the telephone situation was, I think, very ill-judged," said Miss Julia S. O'Connor, president of the Telephone Operators' Department, to a CRIMSON reporter on Saturday. "We discussed the incident of last Thursday night in our conference with the Mayor this morning, and agreed that it was the work of a few individuals only. I do not believe that they represent the entire undergraduate body of the University, for I think that most of the Harvard men are in sympathy with our ideas. I am sorry...