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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...industry and population. Over two thousand years ago the country was civilized but today social and political conditions are much the same as they were at that time. Views were shown of the different modes of travelling at the present time and one of a model of a crude taxicab which was in use nearly a thousand years ago. Pictures were shown of the Great Wall, which was completed in 204 B.C., and which has never been surpassed by any architectural feat in the history of the world. The Great Canal is another monument of the skill of the ancient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHINA AND HER CUSTOMS | 10/20/1909 | See Source »

...Freshman crew, and is especially fortunate in having as good a stroke as Newton. The Yale freshman eight this year seems to be unusually poor. Almost daily changes during the first part of the work at New London have put the crew back considerably. The eight is still very crude, and the men are not at all well together. Although the crew is sure to improve, it does not seem as if it could win the race. Of the Yale freshman four little is known, but it is sure that Harvard's Freshman four is fast. The graduate eights have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOAT RACES WITH YALE | 6/25/1909 | See Source »

Very little is known about the ability of the second crews as their orders have been constantly changed. The second Freshman and second Junior crews, however, have had the most consistent orders, and seem to be better developed than the others. The rowing of the second Seniors is very crude, but there is a good deal of power in the boat. The second Sophomores and the third Freshman crews have done well in short sprints...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND CLASS CREWS RACE | 5/13/1909 | See Source »

...work of the Freshman crew has been ragged and crude, due to numerous changes in its order from day to day. Two crews were on the river Thursday and rowed in the following order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rowing Review for Past Week | 3/6/1909 | See Source »

...socialists magnify their cause out of all proportion to its real significance, and imagine that it alone represents a serious interest in problems of human welfare. The poem on "The Bread Line" by L. G. Painter helps to point a moral on the subject of socialism. It presents a crude but sympathetic picture of one phase of our social life

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review of Current Illustrated | 2/26/1909 | See Source »

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