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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...training table and gaze with ani mated longing at a cigarette. He does, however, train his body to the best of his ability. If we have sensible training a man can keep in training a life-time without physical harm. The healthiest men I have ever known have been professional athletes in constant training. If every athlete here at College is sensible and looks after his own training, he can train every moment of his life without physical injury...
...Lunt '09 introduced Mr. Copeland, the speaker of the evening, who gave an interesting account of the undergraduate life of M. Newell '94, commenting upon his charming character and the brilliancy of his mind. It is in memory of Newell, who was one of the greatest athletes ever graduated from Harvard, that the Newell Gate on Soldiers Field and the Newell Boat Club have been erected. Mr. Copeland also read extracts from his college diary, which further recalled his great versatility...
...University crew will row Cornell on Gaynga Lake, Ithaca, on May 30 over a two-mile course. This will be the first time a University crew has ever rowed at Ithaca, although the second crew has raced there before. It will also mark the third contest between Cornell and Harvard first crews, the other two races having been rowed over the one and seven-eighths mile course in the basin during the last two years. In both these contests the Harvard eight was defeated by Cornell...
...battles in a given war, their dates and the officers commanding are non-essential, but the causes and the unexpected results of the war are of prime interest. No man planned the great republic as it is today, nor even anticipated the present condition of the states. Nothing was ever further from the present homogeneous republic than the thirteen original colonies, differing in political conceptions, with religious faiths as divergent as Chrisianity admits, scattered along two thousand miles of seacoast, with rivalries and animosities unrestrained...
...this development of homogeneity each step has been in sequence to what has preceded. The first desire for union was the result of fear of the mother country. Later, came the War of the Rebellion, the greatest war the world has ever seen, and the result was a Union, welded in the white heat of civil combat. This was not planned, it was evolved. The policy of national liberality to those who have built railroads and factories, was of vast importance to the further development of the Union. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been characterized by contests for territory...