Word: due
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...others are growing every day. Another problem is the appalling overcrowding of London which we already have. The mortality is terrible, especially among children, of whom 52 out of every thousand die yearly, whereas the ordinary rate is not more than 18. At least half of these deaths are due to preventable diseases. The immorality of our women we are fighting day by day. The large, hungry, starving crowd of the unemployed which march through London every winter present another enormous problem. Besides all this, the slums are a breeding place for all kinds of doctrines; and anarchy and socialism...
Langdell Hall, the new law school building, was endangered last evening by the occurrence of a small fire. The fire, which was due to spontaneous combustion, started in the basement of the hall, and had made considerable head-way when discovered at about 9 o'clock by the night watchman. Two alarms were rung in immediately, and the fire was quickly extinguished, as soon as the engines arrived. The loss, estimated at about $250.00 was chiefly of plumbers' tools and store lumber, so that the progress of the hall was not materially set back...
...registration in all departments of the University on September 30, 1907, compared with the corresponding day last year. The figures show a net gain of 4 in Harvard College, the considerable gains in the Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior classes being offset by a decrease in the number of Seniors, due to the increasing number of students who complete the work for the degree in three years. The Lawrence Scientific School, which is passing out of existence as an undergraduate department, shows an expected decrease--from 202 to 118; but the Graduate School of Applied Science, which will supplant...
...general relation to students in the University, which he stated should be both friendly and intimate. Within the past eight years, ever since the formation of the Phillips Brooks House Association, there has been a gradual but noticeable change in the religious atmosphere at Harvard, a change due directly to the efforts of the Association, founded in memory of a man who stood for the best there is in life, Phillips Brooks. The step in life you Freshmen are now taking, he said, is from boyhood into manhood. The dividing line between the two is more difficult to determine...
...ball, first lined up against Team B on the latter's 20-yard line, but were unable to put the ball over the line in a 15-minute scrimmage. In the line-up between Teams C and D, Rand made a touchdown for the former, but had the due penalties been inflicted, the results might have been different...