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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...game with West Point tomorrow is one of the most important on the football schedule. Since its game with Yale two weeks ago the Army eleven has made considerable improvement, and on its own grounds will be prepared, as it has nearly always been in former years, to give Harvard a hard contest. We have the fullest confidence, however, in the Harvard team's ability to give a good account of itself...
...year ago the Student Council came out in strong opposition to undergraduates who desired to accompany the football team to Annapolis, since the trip involved a three-days' absence from Cambridge and considerable interruption of College duties. This year, with the West Point game as the only one away from home, it is reasonable to expect that there will be many men who want to see the game, and the team will undoubtedly appreciate the support of Harvard men in the bleachers...
Debating at Harvard has fallen on evil days; of the inter-class and inter-club debates that flourished a few years ago there is no remnant left. Annually the debates with Princeton and Yale bring into momentary prominence a small group of men, but these occasions once past, debating sinks from public notice. Possibly its lack of popularity is a phase of the present trend away from things scholarly; more likely it arises in some defect of the system by which debating is carried on here...
...depression and in the face of a decreased enrollment in the undergraduate department of the University, the source from which the Co-operative draws its chief patronage. The Society's, membership made a slight gain, being. 2493 at the close of the fiscal year as, against 2479 a year ago...
...cent. of the whole, so that the directors are able to recommend to the stockholders the payment of the usual 8 per cent. dividend for the year. This will form the largest dividend disbursement in the Society's history and is nearly three times the amount paid five years ago. During the past five years the Co-operative has paid out in dividends more than $60,000, besides setting aside all necessary reserves and making liberal allowances for depreciation...