Word: fact
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fact is established that whenever men as individuals are free to work, to earn, and to save and use their earnings as they deem fit, the capable everywhere tend to rise to prosperity. Skillful men are always in demand at good wages. Thus as the moral side is also developed by individualism and competition, the strongest characters are secured...
...Saturday afternoon by the score of 2 to 1. The Freshmen, however, did exceedingly well as the Andover team was the same team that played the University team last Wednesday, with the exception of one man. The field was very muddy making the play slow. In spite of the fact that the Freshmen were scored on twice their defensive play was better than Andover's while the latter excelled in offensive work. The game was evenly matched and well con- tested, Carnochan, Lowrey, and Greene playing well for Harvard while Kwan for Andover was the best man in the field...
...football in the public interest would be likely to divert the bulk of the coaching away to that sport. It is hard, we know, to find money to foster these minor sports which bring in no gate receipts, and Harvard of course is very, very poor. But the fact remains that other and smaller colleges can and do provide professional coaches for their cross-country runners which for the present Harvard seems to lack, and that while this difference exists Harvard will continue to be at a disadvantage...
Special interest in the missionary work is manifested this year by the University on account of the fact that M. R. Edwards M.'08 is in China looking over the conditions in order to present a definite project on establishing a Harvard Mission there...
...days ago the CRIMSON called attention to the fact that substitutes on the University football squad who did not play in the Yale game deserved some in signia as a reward. The communication in another column calls attention to a condition in the award of cross-country insignia, which, on its face, is similar, but which, in reality, is not the same. Men who represent Harvard in cross-country runs receive the "H.A.A.," just as men entered in the Yale and intercollegiate track meets. Each one has a chance to win the track "H" by finishing first, but, what...