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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Esperanto was born, said M. Privat, in a little Prussian village where a boy named Zamenhof lived about the middle of the last century. This boy saw the need of a universal language because of strife and misunderstanding that arose between people of his native village who spoke four different languages. When he grew up, he formulated an artificial language, Esperanto, but met with little success until 21 years ago. Since then, interest in the new language has grown steadily, and today there are over 700 Esperanto societies and more than 400 magazines spreading the language over the world...
...remarkably close game the University basketball team defeated the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last night by a score of 22 to 20. The University team's poor work in shooting goals from fouls, only four out of 13 attempts proving successful, prevented them from winning by a wider margin. At the end of the first half the score stood 12 to 6 in favor of Technology. In this period the University team displayed little team work and was clearly outplayed...
...Carlisle Athletic Association drew up following the recent criticism of the athletic system there. The new regulations provide that only regularly enrolled students, and not employees, shall be eligible to represent the school in the future, and that no student shall represent Carlisle in football for more than four years. Under these rules Mt. Pleasant, Lubo, Hendricks, Gardiner and Exendine will be ineligible next fall...
Only two members of last year's squad, one regular and one substitute, were employee of the school, the rest being bona-fide pupils. Two others had played football more than four years...
...Minot '07, captain of last year's University track team, was the first speaker. He emphasized the necessity of developing a strong team this year to keep the nine-year dual cup from Yale. Each university has won the cup four times, and its permanent possession rests with this year's team. Minot has offered three silver cups to the men showing the greatest "general merit" during the season. Winners of the three cups will be picked from men in the shot-put or hammer-throw, the high-jump or pole-vault, and the hurdles. The competition is open...