Word: ago
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...furnishes a typical example of the interest in scrub sports which is steadily increasing every year. Although the entry list is considerably smaller than last year's, the fact that nearly 200 men are taking part is a convincing proof of popularity. Since the plan was inaugurated two years ago, its success has ensured it a permanent place in the track season. The coaches are given an opportunity to see the relative advantages of all the candidates for the team, the monotony of the long winter season is broken, and a great many men are given an opportunity to take...
...from Damascus, four stone seals, two of which appear to be Babylonian, one Assyrian, and one Persian, two Arabic manuscripts, and about two dozen specimens of rock salt from the shores of the Dead Sea. Of the Greek papyri received from the Egypt Exploration Fund and reported a year ago, three have been deposited as a loan in the museum of the Classical Department of the University...
...seriousness of the dining hall situation, has appointed a managing committee to take charge of Memorial and Randall during the remaining months of the year. A serious problem confronts the members of this committee, for the two halls have been less and less prosperous every year. A few years ago it was necessary to apply ahead of time to get into the Harvard Dining Association, and a large waiting list was maintained. Now, the Association is glad to get anyone to help fill up the empty tables. The responsibility for this state of affairs must not be laid...
...Simons '09, P. S. Twitchell '11, J. M. Taylor '11, J. C. Wilby '10. This squad will continue to practice at 2.30 o'clock. The battery squad has not been reduced as yet, except that all but four of the 1912 candidates were a short time ago sent down to the Freshman squad...
...Ogden was for over 20 years a member of the firm of John Wanamaker, retiring only two years ago. He has also taken an active part in educational matters, and is now president of the board of trustees of Hampton Institute at Hampton, Va., director of the Union Theological Seminary in New York, trustee of the Tuskegee Institute, president of the Southern Education Board, and trustee of the General Education Board. He received the degrees of M.A. from Yale University in 1902 and LL.D. from Tulane University...