Word: fours
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Trips by professors and speeches at western Harvard clubs bring loyalty to the hearts of graduates and increase our academic reputation; but in no way can the younger generations be reached, except by an actual invasion by the undergraduates themselves. Their testimony on the breadth of opportunity involved in four years of life at Harvard will be heard by the younger generations, who, after all, are the ones we need most to reach...
Harvard was handicapped by the smallness of the team, entering only one man in the side-horse, the horizontal bar, and the tumbling, in which Columbia had two or more entries. The University team showed individual superiority, winning four out of the six events, but lacked secondary men, as was shown by their only winning second and third in two events...
...University of Chicago has been enabled, through the generosity of Messrs. Hart, Schaffner and Marx, of Chicago, to offer again in 1908, as in the past three years, four prizes for the best essay on any one of the following subjects...
There is very little plot, and the action centres around the four principal characters: Littlewit, a proctor; Busy, a Puritan; Cokes, an esquire of Harrow; and Overdo, a justice of the peace. The scene is laid at Bartholemew Fair, where the characters have gone for recreation. Cokes is buying toys and ballads, when Edgworth slips up and picks his pocket. Justice Overdo, who is present in disguise, is accused and placed in the stocks. Then the Puritan Busy enters, and, filled with fanatical zeal, tries to destroy the gaily-colored booths. He is also put in the stocks, where...
...whole the men pull well together. The crew has been twice down to the basin; yesterday it continued in one long stretch past Harvard Bridge almost to Beacon street. Richardson, Severance, and Fish are occupying the same seats they filled last year. Lunt, however, has gone to four and Faulkner has been shifted from three to bow. Morgan, now at three, rowed against Yale and Cambridge in 1906, but was a substitute last year. Consequently there are only two new men in the shell at present--Sargent and Bacon; they and Morgan fill up the three positions left...