Word: best
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University basketball team has recently finished one of the most discouraging seasons ever experienced by any Harvard athletic organization. Handicapped at the start by a small squad and a short schedule, the members of the team did the best they knew how, but were defeated in seven of the eight games played. Their competitors came from places where basketball is rated more highly than at Cambridge, as a consequence of which the games were usually one-sided. When they played in the Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard men turned out in very small numbers and the team undoubtedly felt that to many...
...rest of the number is of the usual sort, giving the life of the place in the last few months. Not the least interesting are the photographs, several of President Eliot, one of President Lowell, by no means the best published, another of Dean Haskins, which does not show the geniality of his face; that of Dean Wright lacks the twinkle of the eye which meant so much...
...work? Would it not be better for the undergraduates themselves to make the first move? Dartmouth men have set us a fine example of what can be down by undergraduates in this respect. The plan of campaign can be well left to the Student Council, as a body best representing the College as a whole. Surely every man in College would be willing to help a little. And it is not the among raised which is going to count nearly so much as it is the spirit behind the work. If the undergraduates have enough interest in a new gymnasium...
...feature of the season will be the establishment of football relations with Princeton by a game between the Freshman teams. It was apparently impracticable to arrange a game for the University elevens, but the next best thing was done...
...Union tonight an address on "The National House of Representatives" will be delivered by one of the most prominent members of that body. Congressman McCall has shown that devotion to high ideals may be effectually combined with a practical sense of the best methods of reform, and by his personal integrity and fearless convictions he has become a leader in the movement for honesty in government. The recent offer of the presidency of Dartmouth was a high tribute to his varied achievements...