Word: great
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor W. Z. Ripley, of the Economic Department, will sail for London on Wednesday to be gone three weeks. He will deliver the annual Huxley Memorial Lecture in commemoration of Thomas Henry Huxley's work in the field of ethnology, before the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. This lecture is in substance a recognition of work done in the preparation of his great book, "The Races of Europe...
...sheer political enthusiasm; but a torchlight procession with the bands playing and a general feeling of excitement in the air is quite an attraction in itself, regardless of what the cause may be for which the parade is striving to do its share. This attraction is great enough in our community to induce some 800 men to put aside their books for a part of the evening and parade for the sake of their political party and their own edification...
...well as desirable features. There will be in the neighborhood of 2000 men in line, and a long circuit has been mapped out to march over. No one claimed for a minute that the good done the Republican party by the parade four years ago was one-tenth as great as the harm suffered by Harvard College. Even the remote possibility of the recurrence of such an episode in which college men disgraced themselves in the public eye has prompted the Student Council to supervise the arrangements made by the local political committee to insure that all necessary precautions have...
...would seen, however, that the wearing of caps and gowns in the spring, which besides tagging the Seniors, has other points in its favor, might be used in this connection, and if the energies used in encouraging both be directed entirely towards the caps and gowns so that the great majority of the class wear them in the spring, the buttons might well be given...
...glance at the account of the game shows that the Navy distinctly outplayed the University team. The opponents' linemen found no great difficulty in forcing back the men opposite them, and in tackling and handling kicks in the backfield--two of the essential rudiments--Annapolis was much superior. The Harvard backfield lacked concentrated power and was only effective at brief intervals, never getting the ball dangerously close to the line by rushing. All of which goes to show the relative strength of the team today in comparison with a strong team. We should be grateful for a tie score under...