Word: farness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Only Harvard men remain in the singles of the intercollegiate lawn tennis championship at Haverford, Pennsylvania. All four members of the team won their matches Saturday and will compete together in the semi-finals at their own convenience. The team suffered its only defeat so far in the tournament by losing one of the matches in the doubles. Niles and Dabney, however, won their match and are the favorites for the championship match which will be played today...
Although the football season is still young, it is not too early to express a hope for improvement in our football songs. There is no valid reason why our singing at the large games should be inferior to that of many of our opponents who are far behind us in numbers. Yet we have learned by experience that we have little cause for pride in this respect...
...far as the quality of the songs is concerned, perfection is still a far distant goal. Now and then a really catchy tune is evolved, but it is rare indeed that good words and music are combined. Surely Harvard has no lack of capable composers or of men able to write appropriate lines, and if a competition is started early enough, and the real musicians of the University enter into it with the right spirit, we should not lack for songs which mean something...
...department, shows an expected decrease--from 202 to 118; but the Graduate School of Applied Science, which will supplant it, has more than doubled in numbers. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences shows an increase of 18 in the number of resident students. The Divinity School has thus far enrolled 9 students less than last year. The Law School shows a net gain of 17; but a gain of 35 in the entering class. The Medical School, the numbers of which were much reduced a few years ago by the requirement of a degree for admission, shows a gain...
...Smith has travelled extensively in the Far East and has had opportunities such as come to few men for obtaining inside knowledge of the countries he has visited. His professional standing gave him entrance into the harems of some of the Eastern potentates. In traveling through Africa, Korea, and China, Dr. Smith earned the gratitude of many of the natives by exterminating lions and tigers that were constantly a source of terror to the inhabitants of isolated villages. In a word, he knows the jungle and desert and can make his hearers feel their charm...