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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Harvard was especially strong in covering her opponents closely on the defensive and although Princeton played with accuracy and life, her team showed the effects of the hard game with Yale on Thursday...
...basketball team will play Princeton this evening at 7 o'clock in Hemenway Gymnasium. The game should be a close and exciting one. Harvard, although suffering somewhat from the effects of a hard game with Columbia, has improved during the last week, especially in defensive work. Very effective playing is expected of the whole team, especially the two guards, who are very strong, and this coupled with the fact that the contest will take place at home makes the prospect bright. Princeton was defeated by Yale last night by a score...
...work of the track team this spring will begin as heretofore with exercises in the Gymnasium. The men will be given chest-weight and dumb-bell drill and open-air running. Practice in starting will also be given to the sprinters, hurdlers, broad jumpers, high jumpers, and pole vaulters. Although Mr. Graham, owing to illness, will not be able to attend to the men for about two weeks, it is hoped to have them in condition when he begins coaching...
...annual strength test competition will begin this year somewhat later than usual. Men wishing to prepare for the tests have been advised to wait until the latter part of March in order that better results may be obtained. Although there is no officially recognized intercollegiate competition, nevertheless a report of the comparative standing of the universities will be made at the close of the season. The suggestion has also been made to award a suitable trophy to the holder of the highest record for the year...
Maupassant was a very different writer from Daudet. although he died at the age of 45, the most exacting critics have recognized in him qualities of sobriety, strength and clearness which form the genuine French splrit, and which are the characteristics of classical works. But in addition to this, one finds in Maupassant a particular disposition to conceive life which is not only French, but also Gallic. For this reason Maupassant is is not generally appreciated as much out of France, as where the Gallic race is predominant...