Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...case today's game is not played and Harvard defeats Yale. Both teams are limited in the number of trips they can take, and both are laboring under financial disadvantages. We hope that the building of an indoor rink in Boston will prevent the recurrence of a like dilemma, or that the Athletic Association will see fit to provide some means by which the hockey team can be sure of good ice throughout the season...
...writer finds himself in a dilemma when making application for tickets for the Harvard-Yale game. One of the conditions of the acceptance of his application is that he shall put stamps to the amount of twelve cents on the envelope that is to enclose his tickets later on; and this requirement is particularly emphasized by the use of capitals. The writer believes that the requirement involves unnecessary postage to the amount of two cents on every application--assuming the registration fee to be eight cents and that two cents will bear the weight of the envelope and its contents...
...does not follow, however, that this is the only solution of the dilemma. The object of the present canvass is to get the opinion of the whole University, and this can only be done if everyone takes an interest in the problem. The CRIMSON is willing to help in every way possible and will welcome any helpful suggestions...
...other way out of the dilemma exists: the instructors may reduce the quantity or the quality of work required. That way will hardly be taken: Dean Briggs, if I remember rightly, recently gave to the New York graduates the assurance that the standard of the A. B. degree would not be lowered. But if scholarship is not to be cheapened, something else is going to suffer. The inestimable educative value--using educative in its noblest sense,--of a Senior year with four courses and plenty of time for those other occupations which bring maturity of mind and breadth of culture...