Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Today for the first time in 14 years the University baseball team will meet a professional nine on the diamond. This is one feature of a general awakening on the part of the athletic authorities, who seem to have come to realize that there is a certain satisfaction in winning, and that it is worth while to give the teams every opportunity for development...
...Union dining room profitable. Something ought to be done to prevent this waste. It is possible that allowing men to "sign on" for the week at slightly reduced rates would increase the business sufficiently to prevent running the restaurant at a loss. However this may be, it is certain that at the present rates there should be no deficit, and it will be the duty of the new administration to find some way of putting the Union restaurant upon a commercial basis...
...Faculty meeting held yesterday afternoon, the committee on the choice of electives, after consulting with the division of modern languages, proposed certain changes in the requirements for a degree in Harvard College, which were accepted. The reason for the recommendation arose from the desire of the committee to secure a reading knowledge of either French or German from those who are candidates for a degree. Feeling, however, that the Faculty have no right to change the requirements for those candidates who are already in College, it was decided that this should not apply before the class of 1914. The changes...
...School; the other taking in the rest of the University. The ballot will be run off as nearly like a regular municipal ballot as possible. Hence, as a statute provides for the election officials to be composed of an equal number of Democrats and Republicans, a certain number of members of the Democratic and Republican Clubs will superintend this ballot. The Lodge Gate has been engaged as a poll for the University voting; a room in the Law School will probably be used as a voting place for the other precinct. In order to ascertain the number of Republican, Democratic...
...upper class crews, but it is disgraceful that members of any crew should refuse to row because the regular make-up of the boat is incomplete. Of course, this reluctance to row with the crew broken up is not, as the writer of the communication supposes, from "a certain athletic snobbishness," but because it is hard work to row with new men in the boat, who throw it out of rhythm. There is no excuse for deferring class crew practice on this account, except the laziness of members of the "first crews," and it is the duty of each class...