Word: column
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...occasion is now more favorable for raising funds, and we urge that the subject be thoroughly agitated. Furthermore, we wish to repeat a suggestion made in this column last spring. It was that the money, some $60,000, which has been raised for the Brooks House project, be made a neucleus for this more comprehensive improvement. It must be remembered that the original plan for the Brooks Memorial has dwindled sadly. Instead of $300,000 only $60,000 has been raised, so that at the best that plan is but a make shift. Even were this not so, a University...
...recent number of Harper's Weekly contains in its sporting column, conducted by Mr. Caspar Whitney, certain allegations concerning Harvard baseball players which it seems to us should not pass unnoticed. The so-called "summer nine black list" is an expression of personal opinion pure and simple. It has no status whatever as an authority. In fact, were it not for the injustice to the individual Harvard men whose names appear there in the issue of October 2 we should not care to pay any attention to the matter. Injustice has been done, however, as Mr. Whitney would know...
...amateur standing, and just where, in the intermediate territory between the professional and the amateur, the division line is to be drawn, is largely a matter of personal opinion. Certainly the best guide for Harvard men is the code of Harvard rules, while, as for the column in question, it can accomplish nothing without the support of public opinion, and next to nothing without the support of college athletic authorities...
...appearance of the football notice to the Freshman class, which we publish in another column, is an unfortunate beginning for 1901's athletic record. Out of the largest class which has yet entered the University, only some fifty men-or little more than half of last year's number-have come out to play football...
...Telescope," by A. B. Ruhl, and "The Manger's Office," by J. A. Macy. In this last the atmosphere of the manager's office and the different episodes in the story are presented with exceptional convincingness and firmness of touch, while the whole, with the exception of a half column of repetition, is alive and vigorous...