Word: greates
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cross-country runners of the preceding fall. At Yale the letter is awarded to those runners who finish within twelfth place in the intercollegiate run, whether Yale wins the run or not. This does not cheapen the letter, for to secure even twelfth place in such an event requires great qualities. I think the Athletic Association should follow Yale's example in this respect, and place a real "H" within the reach of good cross-country runners, or else remove the mythical reward altogether. E.L. VIETS...
...Chapel services on November 29 the anniversary of the birth of John Harvard. Evidently the usage did not long continue, for such a service has not been held within the memory of the present College generation. The tercentenary celebration two years ago brought the life and services of the great benefactor before the public as well as the University in most complete fashion, but that too will soon have passed beyond any but occasional recollection...
...Braddock contributes a thoughtful article on "Boston-1915" in which he points out opportunities for Harvard graduates to find a useful occupation. In "The Song of the Little Singer" Mr. E. S. Lewis expresses himself with great ease and modesty; his last two lines are particularly pleasing. Mr. R. A. Morton writes of the Boylston street bridge, using fact, imagination, and a photograph. The style is somewhat journalese. Mr. Fang Shik Chien writes on "The American Football in the Eye of an Oriental." When the football first came into his eye, Mr. Chien says, he disliked...
Passing from the dangerous, rock-bound coast to the plains of the interior, the tourist comes upon the great nitrate beds, which furnish the chief income to this otherwise unproductive country. The export of nitrate is enormous and was the chief cause of the late Chili-Peruvian...
Passing from Bolivia to Peru, the traveller notices at once the remains of the ancient race of Incas. "The Stonehenge of America," a curious collection of huge carved boulders, stands in the middle of a great, brown plain. These ruins, much resembling the stonehenge of England, were probably built in the fifteenth century. The method by which these immense rocks were cut to fit into each other so exactly is still a mystery to archaeologists...