Word: furnishings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...look up every possible candidate for their particular events and make them feel the necessity of regular work. The captains will also arrange an hour on two afternoons each week when their candidates can practice together, and so receive coaching as a class and improve together. This will furnish an excellent opportunity for inexperienced men to see good men work...
...produce a strong team, and now that the season is drawing to a close we look to them to demonstrate to the skeptics that they can play as well from the start as when the score stands against them. Needless to say, today's games, although not conclusive, will furnish the prophetically inclined with advance information on the Yale game. We can only hope that their prophecies will be favorable to Harvard...
...year modestly states the aim of the paper. Commendable, this, and admirable, were sufficient emphasis put on the word "Instructive." But the current number is likely to make a graduate at least fear that the editors of the advocate do not subject undergraduate articles to sufficiently severe criticism to furnish their authors much real instruction in the art of writing. More than half of the sixteen pages of the present paper deserve praise solely for general, but not invariable, correctness of style (while after all should be taken for granted in any paper of any good college) and for pleasant...
...Association, which is designed to help students in the University to furnish their rooms at small cost, loans furniture at a yearly rental of 10 per cent. of its value. Every student leasing furniture is obliged to pay the yearly rent in advance, and must deposit a sum of money, ordinarily $2.50, as a partial guarantee of its return in good condition. Though the primary purpose of the Association is to be of use to students who find it necessary to exercise strict economy, any student in the University may apply for furniture...
...poor taste. Harvard may take pride in its freedom from antiquated traditions, but it is possible to carry cynicism too far. The song, which is parodied in the Lampoon, has meant much to generations of Harvard men, and it seems almost sacrilegious to distort the well-known verses to furnish sport for a few readers. It was especially unfortunate that this should have appeared on the day of the Intercollegiate Track Meet. Harvard men might understand it as a protest against the suggestion to change the words of "Fair Harvard"; but men from other colleges--if any of them chanced...