Word: facts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...enabled to choose their favorite form of exercise. For instance, not only would those training for the athletic teams be excused from any fixed form of exercise, but tennis, boxing, fencing, golf, bicycling, could be taken into account, and even geological or botanical excursions accepted as a substitute. In fact, it is our opinion that an elective course of physical training giving credit toward a degree, could be so managed as to prove in every way most effective in encouraging every form of healthy out-of-door exercise...
...included in the number, and if there really were a war and a call for volunteers, that a great many would respond in the same spirit. There always have been such men, doubtless there were in '61, and think what a revulsion they must have had then. In fact it is one thing to take a matter cheerfully though seriouly, and another to consider everything a big joke...
...with P. G. Carleton '99 as alternate The trial took the form of a regular debate, with twelve minute opening speeches and five minutes allowed each man for rebuttal, and the plan proved very successful. The speakers were evenly divided and gave a strong, finished debate. Considering this fact the attendance was deplorably small...
...seems that they are unquestionably right. Granted that the Tree is a Senior affair, the ladies, and as many of them as possible, have always been the attractive feature and in fact the raison d'etre of the exercises, and the more their number is reduced the less successful such exercises will be. If their number is reduced the other classes will begin to lose interest in the affair, and Harvard can not afford to let slip her single annual chance of getting the whole body of undergraduates together. Moreover the graduates who attend the exercises add zest...
...never had a fire, but every year there are a number of drunks there who insist on smoking and who might easily leave a lighted match where it could set a muslin skirt afire. That this danger is considerable, perhaps more considerable than we realize, seems possible from the fact that I have heard from several different sources of graduates, who had got very nervous on this account...