Word: due
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work of the Yale freshmen has been particularly good this year, the fielding and batting being good. They have no very good pitchers. In nearly every game two pitchers have been used, and their victories have been mostly due to excellent fielding and hard hitting...
Music had had a hard time in finding its way into academic recognition in this country. It was not until the scholarly influence of the late Professor John Knowles Paine became felt that it began to find its due place in college curriculums. It is to Professor Paine that Harvard in a great measure owes its Department of Music and the encouragement of the study and practice of music in the University. The Musical Union was formed in 1906 for the express purpose of perpetuating Professor Paine's influence and establishing a permanent memorial to him, and the activity...
...difficulty in the system at Memorial Hall which has caused considerable comment is the method of counting the weeks as beginning on Wednesday. This is due to the fact that the tables open on this day in the fall, but there seems to be no particular reason for continuing the system during the year. By charging half price for the first half-week, the Hall could start regularly on the Monday following the opening of College, and save a great deal of trouble and expense for the many men who naturally prefer to enter or leave the Hall on Monday...
...difficult to realize the rapid concentration in cities which has taken place since the Civil War. This is partly due to the great immigration--sixteen and one-half millions in the same period. With overcrowding, and the influx of a body of people unused to free government, has come a depreciation of the intelligence of the suffrage, still further lowered by the creation of a class of industrial operatives whose task of monoto- nously repeating one small operation requires but small intellect...
There has always been in the past a Glamentable lack of understanding between the teaching staff and the students, due party, no doubt in the Harvard system of instruction by lectures and conferences. The Faculty does not always understand the undergraduate world, and the ways of the powers that be are to most undergraduates incomprehensible...