Word: greates
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...twelve years since the University football team has met Cornell, though in the early nineties the game figured in the schedule with great regularity. The last game was played in 1897, when the University team won by the score of 24 to 0. This makes the sixth sport in which Harvard and Cornell compete directly, the others being rowing, baseball, relay racing, association football and lacrosse...
...number of churches, until none now hold a position of influence or are able to provide comfortable circumstances for their pastors. The problem of giving an influential position to a minister is largely analogous to doing the same for a teacher, which has been accomplished to a great extent by state support. This, however, is impossible in the case of a clergyman, because a state religion is forbidden by the Constitution. The benefit which teachers derive from state support is surpassed to no small degree by their support by large endowments, and it is here that we find...
Though this is the Freshmen's first game, the chances of their winning are favorable. During the last week's practice they have improved much, having shown a great deal of speed, and although rather light, they should become, in time a really good team...
...institutions which men build up continue to bear influence long after the men who build them have passed away. We here are building up one of the greatest of institutions, and we must live here and work here in such a way that our descendants--our grandsons and great grandsons--will be better men for our having been in Harvard College...
...death of the late Dean Wright left vacant the position of Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, an office of great responsibility in directing the affairs and building up the power and influence of one of the most important and generously endowed schools of the University. To this office the authorities have appointed Professor Haskins who during a comparatively brief connection with the University has assumed a position of leadership among his colleagues. When he came to Harvard in 1902, it was considered fortunate for the University to add to its list of teachers...