Word: done
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Roux concluded by saying that the suffering and difficulties, through which French society is passing, will not be without their good results, for he believes that this society, which has done so much for civilization, art and science, but which comfort has now made torpid, will be awakened by necessity to a more vigorous and valiant struggle for existence...
...Johnson '02, and several former university players. The head coach has not yet been appointed. A special effort will be made to improve the team work this year. From present indications, pitchers are scarce and unless new material reports, most of the work will have to be done by Garvan. As none of the candidates for catcher is quite satisfactory, Winslow or Waddell may be tried in that position, and other changes will doubtless be made...
...large number of candidates reported for the 1904 crews, but no work was done by them as the election was not over until late in the afternoon. Eleven men reported for the Newell Senior crew, and 10 for the Weld Senior crew. This number does not include several prominent men who are coming out later. Twenty-one candidates reported for the Newell Junior crew, and 25 for the Weld. The Seniors and Juniors were coached for a short time on the rowing machines by Vail, Captain Bullard and R. S. Francis...
After expressing his appreciation of the work done for the French language in America by Harvard men, M. Le Roux said that no true insight into French life could be had through what is termed the "French novel." What the average foreigner knows of Paris, for instance, is solely the boulevards, the theatres, and the museums, while the home life, the "bourgeois" life, remains a closed book...
...also the earnest wish of the Semitic Department that Harvard should conduct explorations in Babylonia-Assyria, from which country have come the most impressive of all Semitic discoveries. Another field which invites the departments more strongly than any other is Palestine. Little exploration has yet been done there, yet Palestine is so important in the world's history that even small results in the number of objects found would reward large expenditure of time and money...