Word: actually
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...brothren." The second editorial espigates the Freshman, already sore with promiscuous good advice, and warns him not to make his life "a giddy wheel of irresponsibility with its centre in the Hub." It may be a personal prejudice but fancy seems to me more delightful when it plays about actual facts than when it cuts loose from them and becomes purely fantastic. In the former case there seems to be a more genuine pleasure left over and you feel amused without feeling cheated...
...little consecutive practice in perfecting itself either on the offensive or defensive. The disorganized practice, caused since the West Point game by a number of little injuries to the first team men, has done little to develop the team or to drill the potentially able players into actual strength and effectiveness...
...University eleven yesterday hardly kept up its good work of the day before, for two of the three touchdowns scored on the second were due to flukes rather than to actual gains by straight football. An excellent start was made, but toward the end of the practice the pace seemed to slacken somewhat, and the first eleven was several times forced to punt. In the last few minutes of play the eleven pulled itself together again and held the second for downs when the ball was within five yards of the University's goal line...
...activity put on a more generally desirable footing. Some of the suggestions thus received have involved radical departures from the present organization, as, for instance: the abolition of the three upper class clubs; changing the University Debating Club from its present status as a merely administrative body to an actual debating club; the transference of the administrative work now done by the University Club to a Debating Committee, constituted after the manner of the Athletic Committee; the annual appointment of a debating manager with two assistants...
...hits on Memorial Hall are by far the most amusing portion of the paper, and resemble sufficiently the actual state of affairs in the Hall to appeal strongly to those who board there. Small portions of "Baedeker's Harvard" and the "Dictionary of Collegiate Biography" are rather good, but the humor appears forced throughout. "By the Way" is the regular senseless collection of puns, and hardly reaches the usual low standard of that column...