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...Committee, believing that it would have been better to let bygones be bygones, regrets the revival of the discussion concerning the last Springfield football game. Since, however, Captain Thorne asks Harvard to contradict the opinions publicly expressed by her chief coach the day after the game, the Committee must frankly say that compliance with this request is impossible...
Secrecy has ever been the most fertile propagator of unhealthy rumors. When we have uncompromising secrecy, maintained for no apparent reason, every rumor carries weight; for there is no responsible source from which to contradict...
...plays of Sophocs support or contradict the traditional belief in the existence of a stage in the Greek Theatre...
...proposition that has met with such general opposition, mainly, it seems, on account of a feeling that if five more general tables were added this year, that would mean a few more next year, and so on as the number of applicants grew larger. The facts of the case contradict this apprehension. The basement of Memorial Hall has a limited capacity, and the needs of the present arrangement have very nearly taxed this capacity to its utmost. There is room to make accommodations for about one hundred more men without altering the present basement essentially. For any larger number, however...
...which Mr. White has compiled show that Harvard's influence in New York is by no means losing ground as the public is often given to believe. We do not for an instant pretend to assert that more New York men come to Harvard than to Yale; figures directly contradict this. The New York men who are studying for a profession or are taking a scientific course find it more convenient to go to Yale to Harvard. But what we do assert, and on the basis of Mr. White's figures can with authority assert, is that for the general...