Word: fact
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first is, "that instead of being a good-natured scramble for flowers it has become a fight to pay off old scores." The facts prove this statement to be an exaggeration. I believe the almost unanimous testimony of the men who have witnessed or taken part in the scrimmages of the past few years will bear me out when I say that the following is a more exact statement of the facts: There have been sporadic instances of encounters between quick-tempered individuals. The vaguest rumor is the only foundation for the statement that these men were "scrapping...
...class meeting, and probably every other undergraduate in mass meeting will be called upon to take some decided stand. That the question is the most important that undergraduates have had to consider this year is shown by the intense excitement created throughout the student body and in the very fact that the Corporation is willing to interpose such peremptory and in our opinion uncalled for interference in a purely student affair...
...students when they see one man "slug" another around the Tree on Class Day? The first thing they do is to hiss, as those of us who were at the last few Class Days well remember. Then they leave Cambridge with fine impressions of the Harvard man! The mere fact that only one such case of dirty work is liable to occur ought to be enough to stop the exercises. Finally, there is absolutely no regularity or order about the "scrimmage," except such as is furnished by the club organizations; and that is a regularity that none of us want...
...second of the series of indoor handicap games were held in the Casino last Thursday. The records were rather poor, largely owing to the fact that the heating apparatus was being repaired and consequently the building was not heated. The only no table performance was the shot putting of R. Garrett '97, who broke the Princeton record, putting the 16 lb. shot...
...federation has lately been making a crusade against honorary degrees and the number given has largely decreased in consequence. In view of the fact that Harvard confers the degrees of A. M., and Ph. D., as honorary degrees, it is interesting to note that at the annual convention of the Graduate Clubs, very few of the institutions represented reported in favor of the practice. At the same convention resolutions were adopted in regard to the granting of degrees. It was thought inexpedient to grant the same degree as an honorary degree as is granted in a regular course of study...