Word: fours
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...undersirable as the subscription nuisance itself. Although open to numerous objections, by far the most rational plan yet suggested is to allow a nominating committee, - composed perhaps of the president of the class from which the candidates are to be chosen, and the captains and managers of the four major sports, - to pick five men whose qualifications are generally admitted. Then let the class choose a winner...
...last speaker was President Eliot. Apropos of Mr. Storrow's remarks, he declared that what we need to realize and act upon is that a democratic society is going to be divided into four layers. Contrary to this doctrine, the present school system has been organized on the idea that every boy may be President of the United States. This idea no longer accords with existing circumstances, since it ignores these four indispensable layers of democratic society; first, a thin, upper layer, consisting of a managing, leading, organizing class; second, a layer comprised of handworkers, who make their living...
...class tug-of-war was intensely exciting, but was marred by the fact that the pulls lasted 2 minutes instead of 1 minute, the regulation length. Had the period been shorter the result might have been different. 1910 first pulled 1911 about four feet, but the Freshmen had more power toward the last and pulled the Sophomores nearly half the length of the Gymnasium. This was characteristic of the other tugs also. The final pull was won by the Freshmen. The human wheelbarrow race was very amusing, and resulted in a victory for W. M. Rand...
Article V--Additional nominations may be made by petition of fifty members of the class. The restrictions on these nominations shall be the same as in article four...
There will be a fencing tournament this afternoon in the Hemenway Gymnasium at 3.30 o'clock for the purpose of choosing the University fencing team. The tournament is open to all members of the University and from the results will be picked the four men who are to represent the University this spring...