Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...guests on Class Day will not care to trudge down to Soldiers Field for anything short of a carefully arranged and interesting set of exercises. The Ivy Oration, even though it be interesting in itself, plus a series of promiscuous cheers, is not worth a tedious and ugly walk on a hot afternoon. SENIOR...
McLanahan of Yale should win the pole vault if in form, as he broke the world's record this year at the Yale-Princeton meet, clearing an even 12 feet. R. B. Gring '05 of Harvard will make a close second and Behr of Yale should win third place...
...attitude of the average man of today is one of indifference. The person who buttonholes his acquaintances and inquires about their hopes of future life is shunned like the Ancient Mariner. Among clergymen the subject is seldom referred to except from the pulpit, and even the daily press is silent. Only on occasions of sickness and sorrow, and at the approach of death, does the though arise, "Of what am I, and where do I go?" It is often the case that the older one grows the less fixed becomes the interest in immortality...
...degenerated, has been cast aside by scientists, who declare that man is the end, and the one far-off event, toward which nature has been steadily moving--the heir of all the ages. During the past forty years biological research has caused a revolution in human thought--has even changed the mind of man. Those who have lived through the bitter changed of fierce extremes in the war between science and religion compare with sorrow the times gone by, when faith was diversified by doubt, with the present, when doubt is diversified by faith...
...closest and most interesting match was between Ingalls and Chick, who finished even up on the first 18 holes. Ingalls, however, won the match by a long putt for a 4 at the extra hole...