Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...article containing the most interest from an undergraduate point of view is "Reminiscences of '66," by Mr. George Batchelor '66. It gives an idea of the Harvard which President Eliot found when he came into office. His predecessor is almost unknown, even by name, to the average undergraduate, so that it is a pleasure to read of the days of President Hill. Mr. Batchelor speaks with some familiarity of Longfellow and Lowell, and also manages to give an account of the struggles out of which the present Harvard club system developed...
...degree as one of the passports to a teaching position. Some college presidents virtually insist that they will appoint no one as instructor who has not been tagged with this title. Others will appoint undoctored instructors, but will not promote them. The thing has almost become a fetish. Yet even a fetish, when it actually exists, must be tolerated if we want to put Harvard men on the teaching staffs of colleges and professional schools. Our facilities enable us to train teachers of business subjects and our standards are high enough to warrant giving this degree if there...
...Yale crews were occupied with regulation spins today. The first eight started over the mile course, but stopped just before the finish. The time was about 2 minutes, 40 seconds, which even with the present weather conditions is very poor. There seems to be a bad check in this Yale shell, which Coach Nichalls is doing his best to remedy. McLane, the experienced Yale coxswain, today lost his plac to Lasher, and the only assignable reason is that McLane has become too corpulent to hold down his job at the extreme stern...
...altering the facts in order to do so is not considered good from in America. The official times were: Cornell, 11.21 1-5; Princeton, 11.23 1-5; Yale, 11.43 1-5. Slow as the Yale crew was, it couldn't possibly take twenty seconds to row 'nearly three lengths,' even with thole pins, for at this rate it would have taken them ten minutes to row a mile...
Because of the large number of men who wish to usher at the Yale baseball game on June 21, it is imperative that all who wish to be considered should sign up at once, even if they have signed for previous games. The list will be made up several days before the game...