Word: account
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...account of the soft condition of the ice, the final game between the Sophomores and Juniors, to decided the interclass hockey championship, was not played on Saturday. The match has been postponed until the ice is in suitable condition...
...fiction, "Sam Dodge: Lobsterman," an exciting tale, and "A Sleep and a Forgetting," a delicate psychological sketch, are by far the best. "Vanitas," by a graduate of another college, is but an inadequate account in would-be sarcastic vein of some phases of Harvard literary activity. "Coffee Pot" is chiefly a matter of hackneyed dialect, and "A Cruising Idyll," though interesting, is slight. "Romance for One" could hardly be more insipid...
...containing brief questions about each man's life, the answers to be printed in the class album. As these sketches do not correspond to the "lives" sent to the secretary, it is very important that every member of the class should answer promptly. This method of printing a short account of each man's life with his photograph in the class album is an innovation, and its success depends upon the promptness of the Seniors in replying...
...Memorial and the Gymnasium. Is not this enough? Previously it has been the custom to cram in some Statue exercises, at which people made lots of noise, and go hot, and dusty, and covered, with confetti, but this year it seems necessary to give up these exercises on account of danger from fire. When we see something going, we always want to get something in its place--and so it is proposed now to have "exercises" in the Stadium. If Class Day was full before, it would be fuller now. The walk to and from the Stadium over in Allston...
...still so fresh in the minds of many people that it would keep them from attending the Statue exercises, and thereby detract from the success of our Class Day. A number of members of the Corporation and the Faculty and some older graduates have expressed the opinion that on account of the possibility of fire, if for no other reason, the continuance of the Statue exercises would be "highly inadvisable...