Word: farness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...foremost institutions of applied engineering in the country. In this development the almuni organization should take an important part. Similar organizations have been successful in the Law and Medical Schools, and, if they are not responsible for the high position of these departments, they certainly exert a quiet but far-reaching influence...
...most radical change which has taken place in the practice of the Harvard eleven this fall in contrast with the work of past years, has been the tendency of Head Coach Crane to make the game more enjoyable to the players than heretofore, and to relieve them as far as possible of the drudgery of the daily routine...
...centre, Harvard is playing Grant, a man of only 171 pounds in weight, but who has been more than a match for all the centres that he has played against thus far. He is down under punts with the ends, is a strong man at blocking kicks, and follows the ball excellently. His substitute is Nourse, who gave Grant a close race for the position, and who is able to play a first-class game...
...that one of the nightly expressions of enthusiasm is to culminate in a trip to Boston. Just what advantage such an excursion would have it is difficult to see. We have no particular interest in displaying our feelings before the people of Boston--indeed they will learn of them far more generally through the newspaper accounts. Enthusiasm is of most value for its effect upon the players and upon the undergraduates themselves...
...three weeks, a collection of memories of John Harvard and his contemporaries. This collection includes portraits, autographs, and books, beside early maps and views of London and Cambridge, and modern views of places connected with Harvard's memory. There is also placed here, a collection of books duplicating, so far as possible, those which Harvard bequeathed to the infant College and which were burnt in the fire of 1764. The collection is by no means complete, but it is sufficiently extensive to give a good idea of the character of the library owned by the young Puritan clergyman. In looking...