Word: falling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present there are about forty men out with the Freshman crew squad, but before the mid-years this squad will be cut down to three crews. Within the last two weeks there has been a call for the football men and those who did not come out in the fall. There are now two crews of these men rowing with strapped slides. The three crews, consisting of the men who are left from the squad which was called out last fall, have been rowing the full stroke for the last ten days...
...give fifteen thousand dollars toward the improvement of Soldiers Field for athletics in consideration of the abandonment of the Carey Building for athletic purposes after this year. Even if the petition to keep Holmes Field for athletics is granted for this year, the field must be given up next fall and the Carey building will then be of little use for athletics. As it cannot be easily moved to Soldiers Field, it is to be thus disposed of, and, in time, it will probably be used for some University purposes...
...never been able to take the regular college course at Harvard and take the only opportunity offered them, in the leisure weeks between the closing and the reopening of school, of working under Harvard instructors, and of study in the College Library. In returning to their work in the fall they spread through various parts of the country Harvard methods of instruction and, it is to be hoped, something of Harvard's aims and spirit...
...doing he benefits a fellow student. There is another point which very few men realize, and this is that, were it not for the income the Corportion derives from its private property, the charges now made for tuition and for rooms in the college buildings would fall very far short of a sum sufficient for the yearly expenses of the University. Indeed, I have heard on good authority that for each $150 Harvard receives from a student's tuition fee, she expends $400. Thus every Harvard man is deeply in debt to his Alma Mater, and he should in turn...
There will probably be another trial of candidates next Tuesday, and unless more men come out, the club will fall below the average of Freshman glee clubs. Candidates for the tenor parts especially are wanted...