Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...easy as they might be nor do they prove altogether satisfactory. Different situations existed in various ways in the two years; there was one more course held last year than this at that hour, the courses were not necessarily of the same size and so on, so that even making allowances for such differences will not give an accurate basis for final comparison. The figures show, however, that 79 men cut on the day of the Carlisle game and 110 on the day of the Dartmouth game which in itself is a very material and satisfactory decrease. Just what...
...contests, we have taken a step in advance. If a brief statement of the Student Council, setting forth the situation in concrete form, is instrumental in reducing the number of absences it has justified its position by just so much, both to the students and to the governing boards. Even in this regard, what does it matter in the long run whether or not this has been due to the specific recommendations of the Council? The fact that there has been a change for the better is the important thing and it is reasonable to believe that the Council, whose...
...Even when this trouble has been adjusted satisfactorily, it seems doubtful if the Association can reduce the cost of board to the figure which they expected when the new plan was first put in operation. However, it is to be hoped that either the present plan can be put on such a basis that it will approximate what was expected of it, or, that the Corporation will consider the matter again and evolve a scheme for Memorial which will be satisfactory both to the boarder and to the finances of the Association. Perhaps an entirely new proposition would...
Government by commission is the system used by all great corporations and even by the United States army. In the building up of Harvard University, which has been attributed to the President, the real power has been with the group of men who directed him. The conduct of a city's business is too great a work...
...entirely different. Instead of dissatisfaction, there is unanimous approval of both the personnel and the methods of the coaching during the past season. Moreover a majority of the men who took part in the Yale game this year are left as a nucleus for next year's team. But even prospects as bright as these will be of no avail unless the same intelligence and determination that made this season a success are continued during the coming year...