Word: ending
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...College Nine has been, on the whole, successful. The nine has won 7 out of its 13 games and scored 100 runs to its opponents' 61. At the beginning of the year the nine started out well with six straight victories to its credit, but towards the end, meeting much stronger teams, it lost six out of the seven remaining games, all but one by very close scores...
...final report of the student investigation committee, published this morning, puts an end to an episode which has been intensely disagreeable, to say the least. To the members of the committee the thanks of the whole University are due for their satisfactory performance of a most distasteful duty. Their success has been a service to Harvard which can hardly be over-estimated. It has accomplished two things. It has shown to the outside world that college sentiment is done, once for all, with mere dissatisfied toleration of such stupid behaviour, even on the part of the most unsophisticated members...
...wherever responsibility for the misunderstanding might ultimately be found to rest), or if an oarlock should break during the first few strokes. Without some such agreement all the hard work and faithful training of many months may be brought to naught, and what ought to be a memorable contest end in an ignominious fiasco...
Freshmen and Specials are frequently dropping out, so that mere expulsion is no punishment at all, especially if their rank is likely to necessitate their withdrawal at the end of the term...
...Yard has always been shut off. The large space thus enclosed will be lighted with Japanese lanterns and will be filled with tables, at which supper may be served. Most of these tables will be specially reserved for those Seniors who buy four or more tickets. At one end of this garden an orchestra will be placed, which will play during the evening in addition to the large orchestra which will furnish music for the dancing in the hall. It is intended to make this enclosed part of the delta one of the most attractive features of the dance...