Word: begun
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan to erect a building for the School was proposed. Pasture land in the rear of the professors' houses, the present site, was chosen. After a committee had determined that the site would be healthy, despite its perpetual dampness, building operations were begun. In conclusion the speaker paid tribute to President Eliot in view of all that he had done in bringing about the union of the Theological School with the University...
Virginia had a hard time with its opponent, Davidson, while of the remaining teams on the Crimson schedule, Cornell, which opens late because of infantile paralysis, and the Massachusetts Agricultural College have not yet begun their seasons. Tufts' game with Worcester Tech did not disclose anything startling, for both teams played thoroughly early season football, Tufts gaining more ground than her opponent...
...University started its spring rowing with a squad nearly as large as that of the Freshmen, the number totalling just short of a hundred. The machine work was begun immediately, but the line-up shifted continually for some little time before an order which would be anywhere near permanent could be decided upon. Finally the following was settled on: Stroke, C. C. Lund '16; 7, H. B. Cabot '17; 6, Captain D. P. Morgan, Jr., '16; 5, T. E. Stebbins '17; 4, Moseley Taylor '18; 3, J. Talcott '16; 2, K. B. G. Parson '16; bow, A. Potter '17; coxswain...
...hold an ideal which refuses sanction to such qualities as the regiment has developed in Harvard men what is their ideal worth? Can it foster anything else but Inertia? The regiment, on the other hand, was the embodiment of ideals linked with real forces. It showed that it had begun to effect that co-ordination of moral with physical might which has won all the world's battles, whether in war or in peace. It defied the degeneracy of inertia. When the regiment marched in Saturday's parade and when it drilled today in the Stadium it quickened the pulses...
Wednesday, first period: Company drill; school of the soldier in squads and platoons; second period: Talk on camp sanitation by camp's surgeon; third period: Voluntary work begun...