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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...might be reached. A meeting of the Council could be called, the question brought up and talked over, so that a more intelligent and unified opinion could be presented by the students than when they arrive to consider a question with the Overseers which they had not previously considered among themselves...
Five defeats out of seven encounters, a certain lack of the essential drive, and a slackness among individual members in matters of team play and training is the record which the baseball squad has presented to the University during the past three weeks. It has been a number of years since Harvard has had to face such a major sport problem. We have hesitated for a long time before admitting that fact; there seems now but little doubt that it is, unfortunately, true...
...program is indicative of the international character of the Club which was established to foster, by means of social activities, a greater knowledge and understanding of their fellow students among the foreigners resident at the University. A feature is a farce, written by L. Geyer '19, which deals symbolically with the ideal of the Club, a true Cosmopolitan spirit...
Prior to 1858 the notion of a distinctive color for each university had not been thought of in American institutions. In the spring of that year, however, a regatta was to be held on the harbor and six enterprising University students, among them President Eliot, then an instructor in the University, secured a "shell" of rather ponderous bulk and steered by the bow oar with the aid of a foot attachment. On the day of the regatta the Harvard oarsmen discovered that fourteen crews were entered in the race and after a consultation they decided that some sort of insignia...
Yale followed suit soon afterwards by adopting "true blue" and the idea spread rapidly. Thus, almost by accident, the University came into possession of its crimson standard and at the same time set a fashion that was to attain wide popularity among schools and colleges through the land...