Word: branches
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...city government of Boston and investigate the feasibility of instituting a government by commission. The report alleges that entrusting such large powers to one man as has been the case with the mayor of Boston, has not proved wise and expedient in practice, and recommends that the executive branch of the city government be vested in a council of five persons. President Eliot is a member of the committee chosen and will be the first speaker...
...made to put that enterprise on a substantial and successful basis. It is the height of folly to attempt to meet opponents on a basis so different from theirs that practically every effort is doomed to be a failure. A change for the better has been made in this branch of the track work and the results so far have been gratifying...
...Greene, which leaves the hero proposing to the wrong sister, but does not inspire in us any curiosity to know what came of it. We are curious, however, to know why he four times addresses the lady as "Madamoiselle." Spelling is, I fear, a neglected branch of literature; the majority are "Laodecian," in that particular, as we read on another page. A Senior meditates, "more senforum," on the changes he has seen and some he would like to see. There is an editorial note commendatory of the Student Council, a word in memory of Professor Norton, and a short review...
...meeting was held last night in the Assembly Room of the Union to consider plans for the organization and carrying on of upperclass football. F. H. Burr '09 spoke on the importance of this branch of intracollegiate athletics. The game between the Seniors and Juniors will be played on Friday, November 13, and the game between the Sophomores and Freshmen on the following Monday. The winners will play on Wednesday, November 18. In case the Freshmen win the class championship, the winners of the game between the Seniors and the Juniors will play the Sophomores to decide which upperclass team...
...Large, Jr., '10 beat R. Crosbie '11, 6-2, 6-1; G. C. Adams '10 beat R. Smith 3G., by default; J. C. Janney '11 beat L. J. Wyeth, Jr., 8-6, 0-6, 6-3; G. G. Pervear '09 beat C. R. Branch 1L., 6-4, 6-2; S. W. Kinyon '09 beat Y. Arai '12, 6-1, 6-1; L. B. Lee 2L. beat R. M. Lane, 6-4, 6-8, 6-3; H. Nickerson '11 beat H. P. Mills '10, 6-2, 6-2; J. E. Gardner, Jr., 1L. beat F. B. Washburn...