Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This statement relieves the doubt which has been prevalent for some time as to whether the football team would continue under the leadership of Mr. Haughton as head coach following his five year term in that position which ended with the 1912 season. The relief is doubly great when it is remembered that at this late date no man had been mentioned who could possibly take Mr. Haughton's place...
Though it is no doubt in some measure an outgrowth of the annual "Christmas Carol Service" in Appleton Chapel, where choruses from the two colleges have for several years sung together successfully, the joint concert tonight by the Harvard and Radcliffe Glee Clubs is a distinct innovation. The Music Department has devoted much time and skill to training the two organizations together for several weeks past, and as a result the program for tonight contains classic songs of a nature more ambitious than either club could have successfully attempted by itself. There is every reason to hope that this...
...value of the consolidated territorial force of Lord Haldane, former Secretary of State for War, which was aimed to establish a great force of citizen soldiers. With such powerful forces working for the military education of the graduates of the two great British institutions of learning there is little doubt that the pleadings of Lord Roberts would receive wider attention, great as has been the consideration already given to them. Whether this project means that the two universities will add to their educational equipment facilities by which military education can be taught, or whether they will expect the undergraduate...
...order to secure the first of these, the value of a strong armaments cannot be overestimated. In the conferences at the Hague, the smaller states have the optically a right to an equal vote; but who will doubt for a moment the moral effect which a is created by a force strong enough to back up national policies? The nations which control strong armies and navies have been a preponderance of weight in the Peace Conferences of the past, and they will continue to have this advantage in the future. A graphic in stance of this is the United States...
...final recommendation--49 in hockey's favor, 20 against it. Ten of the 49 who voted for it were members or managers of this year's University squad. A number of others had played hockey on University or Freshman squads in the past. Giving all the benefit of the doubt to hockey's backers, 35 men, not directly connected with the game voted for its promotion to major-sportdom. At a meeting called for the purpose of securing undergraduate opinion of the claims of hockey to a place with the major sports--a meeting critical in the development...