Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Boat Club beat the first crew by about a length. The boats rowed down stream from the Harvard Bridge to the Union Boat Club. As the Union crew was fresh when it met the University crew on its way down from the boat-house, the outcome of the race cannot be set down to the discredit of the latter. A brush between the second and third crews was stopped by the breaking of a seat in one of the-boats. The third crew was slightly in the lead at the time...
...attack on the House Committee the writer shows his ignorance of facts. Contrary to his statement, last year's chairman was elected in the spring of 1903 when he had no intention of being away for the first half of this year and consequently the members of this committee cannot be blamed for electing a man who was to be absent for the greater part of his term. The next in accuracy is in reference to the appointment instead of the election last fall of the succeeding chairman. A glance at the records of the secretary of the House Committee...
...committee has been done to increase the membership and make the Union more attractive. If anything is to be deplored in the administration it is the miserably small membership. As the Union is practically dependant for its support on the size of its active list and consequent income it cannot be blamed for not carrying out every theoretically desirable improvement when but about fifty per cent of each class join. Many schemes of great value have had to be abandoned owing to a lack of funds, and the House Committee has been constantly held in check by this unfortunate state...
...report of the Library Committee by Mr. W. C. Lane '81 states that regular weekly meetings have been held throughout the year during term-time. The annual meeting being held in the middle of the year, complete statistics cannot be given. Receipts show a generous support of the library, the total of gifts and income from funds up to July 31, 1903, amounting to $9,644.02. The regular annual income for the future may be estimated at $930, which has to cover the cost of periodicals, books and binding, but not newspapers or running expenses. During the year ending July...
...swimming meet, which was to have been held with Yale tonight in the tank of Brown University, at Providence, has been postponed, owing to the fact that the tank cannot be obtained. A new date for the meet has not yet been determined, but it probably will be held soon after the spring recess...