Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...navy will be prevented from entering the Poughkeepsie regatta in June. These conditions make the Harvard race of unusual importance to the cadets, and this interest, coupled with the fact that their crew is better prepared than Harvard to row a two-mile race, gives them at least an even chance of winning on the twenty-second...
...they are fitted for. All of them are essentially winter sports and do not exist at other seasons of the year. Imagine attempting to play basketball in the spring or autumn in a hot gymnasium. Hockey can only exist at the present time when there is ice, and even with a rink, nobody would want to play it in warm weather. These different forms of athletics are to be given up entirely (for to my mind that would be the result of an abolition of intercollegiate athletics) merely because they happen to be sports fitted for indoor work...
...candidate. One of the hardest things the college man has to meet is the routine work in politics, which sometimes seems to him like drudgery; but if he resolves to freely and earnestly give and take criticism, to keep his word through thick and thin, and to maintain an even and open attitude toward his constituents, marked success cannot but come...
...Senior class had seen fit to neglect. Is this the spirit in which the class of 1908 is going to take up its duties as a class? Are one-half of its members still suffering from indifference? We believe it is only thoughtless; but repeated appeals should bring even the thoughtless to their senses...
Swimming, for its vigorous exercise and purity, should be favored by the Faculty, because the contestants, as in tennis and rowing, are not subject to the temptation offered for dirty work. But the proposed plan of those in power is to cut out even this team, which, moreover, has only four contests a year, necessitating two absences only, from Cambridge. Surely the time taken away from studies to prepare for these contests, especially when practice is very light, because of the lack of a pool, can hardly be said to injure a swimmer's standing in the University. PAUL WITHINGTON...