Word: backed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Plans have been drawn up by the City of Cambridge for a new road to connect North Harvard street with the Charles River Speedway and to run across Soldiers Field back of the Stadium and the baseball stands. The surveying has already been completed and work will probably begin in the early spring...
...committee, which is selected so as to be as representative as possible, and accept their decision as final? If there seems to be very crying need of additional nominations, then make use of the provision for petitions, but let only such men sign as really intend to back the candidate, the then there will be no more of this confusion. If this sort of thing continues it will soon be easier for nominating committees to reverse their present custom and decide who ought not to be nominated...
...less assured, and a fair amount of persistence. Four more important qualifications, however, are indispensable to true leadership. In order that he may draw his followers on to something greater and better, the leader must have a definite vision firmly fixed in his thought: he should look forward, not back, and, like Moses, Paul, Napoleon, Bismarck and Lincoln, must be not a traditionalist but an idealist...
...Thanksgiving recess on Monday, November 29, forty-two men reported in response to the call for basketball candidates. Practice has been held daily since then, and the players have been coached by Captain Vanderbilt '06 and Coach Cooper. Of last year's team and substitutes the following are back this year: O. deG. Vanderbilt '06, A. Ely, Jr., '05, R. E. trone '05, J. G. Roper '05, W. H. MacCrellish '05, R. A. Bard '06, E. A. Gerhard '06, G. M. Uptegrove '06, H. W. Ambrose '06, H. C. Kahler '06, E. O. Howell ''07, P. Norton...
...Rifle and Pistol Club is now holding a tournament in the baseball cage of Monday and Thursday evenings at 7.30 o'clock, and the men with the highest scores will receive bronze medals. All men who have entered and intend to compete should make up back scores at once. Rifle scores must be finished and handed in by December 12, and revolver scores by December...