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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...paper as the CRIMSON is to express college opinion. This is done through its editorial articles. It is very important to know the views of the students on all events and policies which affect their academic life. The Governing Boards and the Faculty at Harvard can legislate to better advantage when they have before them college public opinion; but the question which they most constanty ask is whether the opinion expressed in the CRIMSON is really representative. Unless it be that it can naturally carry little weight. To make it that is the business of the board, which ought...
...become indispensable and that, in spite of ups and downs, it has constantly improved. Its prosperity seems to be established. Its proper field of work has been marked out. It recognizes its responsibility as the student mouthpiece of the University. The time seems ripe for making it still better than it has ever been...
Today the Seniors take up the time-honored custom of wearing caps and gowns. It is an honor that no Senior can afford to neglect through false modesty or laziness; but should be welcomed as an enviable privilege and a means to better unity in the last weeks of an eventful undergraduate career...
...carnival of the University of Pennsylvania was held on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, last Saturday. Some very fine performances were made and two records broken. Captain W. R. Dray of Yale established a new world's record of 12 feet, 6 1-2 inches in the pole-vault, an inch better than his previous world's record made in the Harvard-Yale dual meet at New Haven last year. The University of Michigan won the two-mile relay championship in 8 minutes, 4 2-5 seconds, a new collegiate record...
...high jump the University has four men who have all done 5 feet, 10 inches or better; they are R. G. Harwood '09, R. P. Pope '10; G. E. Roosevelt '09, and R. E. Somers '08, who should get all the places. Yale has no one who has done over 5 feet, 7 inches. The shot-put will be a good match between B. T. Stephenson, Jr., '08 and G. L. Buhrman '08 of Yale. Stephenson won over Buhrman last year by 2 inches. L. W. Bangs '08, C. C. Little '10 and F. H. Burr '09 have shown...