Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Five games on the University football team's schedule have been settled. Negotiations for a game with the University of Michigan on October 31 have practically been brought to a close, and though the contest is not definitely in the schedule, there is little doubt as to the arrangement. The first game will be with Maine on September 26; the Tufts contest is finally settled for October 17; and that with Pennsylvania State for October 24. On November 14, one week before the final contest with Yale, the game with Brown will take place. The present arrangement leaves the contestants...
Certain incongruities in the stage setting will no doubt be eliminated in another performance and the ensemble should improve with repetition. It is perhaps carping to repeat that the size of the auditorium with a scattering audience is unfavorable to the best efforts of the performers and it is to be hoped that the transferral of the performances to Boston is not an irrevocably permanent one. Whatever tongue they may employ, college plays are essentially for college audiences...
...difficulties of its expression in the College community. The place for the manifestation of the innermost feelings is the Chapel and there are arguments both for and against compulsory attendance. Between the years of 18 and 22, the natural course for a young man to take is that of doubt in his religion. Make Chapel attendance voluntary and he holds back but make it compulsory and he attends, clearing his doubts and returning refreshed. It is necessary that this doubt should exist and men come forth from it strengthened...
...this last game and at baseball games, there can never be any certainty that it does not come largely from those near-collegians who cause so much trouble on other occasions; at least, such a severe indictment of such a very general character is hardly justified. There is little doubt that unnecessary and unorganized cheering (or jeering) should be done away with, but Sporticus Antiquus's brand of criticism helps not at all; setting a good example is the only way of bringing any improvement in the conduct of our rivals...
There can be no doubt that Harvard University needs the best possible equipment for a well organized department for physical culture in its broadest sense, and a well appointed gymnasium is the necessary laboratory for such a department...