Word: due
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last game of the season, the second basketball team defeated New Hampshire State College at Durham, N. H., yesterday afternoon by the score of 20 to 5. The game was very fast, the victory of the second team being due to its effective defense and accurate passing and shooting...
...fire was drawn up the stair well and soon the whole entry was in flames. An alarm was at once given by shouting "fire," and an attempt made to ring in an alarm from the box in the rear of University Hall. That the signal was not sounded was due to the burning out of the fire-alarm box connection, or else to the fact that the wires had been tampered with. That the Cambridge fire-alarm wires were tampered with last Tuesday was known at the fire-alarm office, but the location of a place of injury...
...team work of the Yale seven is excellent, due partly to the fact that six of the members of the team are veterans of last year. While the men are slightly outweighed by the Harvard players they make up for this disadvantage by speed and ability in stick work...
...this too great simplicity of religion which was responsible for the decadence of Mohammedanism. The Christian religion entertained a great hope for the development and benefit of the race, while the Allah of the Arabs was a stationary God. To the expansive quality of Christianity was due its widespread growth...
...have to be served. The other candidate is a member of the Graduate School who has for several years rendered conspicuous service on the board of directors and its principal committees. Many of the improvements in the conduct and equipment of the Hall in recent years have been mainly due to his careful and patient work. Would it not seem unfortunate to have this difficult business position go to a man of no previous experience, when there is opportunity to put in a man who has exceptional knowledge of the needs and possibilities of the Hall...