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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...prime objections to intercollegiate athletics which is periodically brought rather forcibly to our attention is the demoralizing effect of a big game, particularly when played away from home, on the following few days with reference to academic pursuits. This is a justifiable complaint and one which the Council proposes to meet if possible with a better state of affairs this year in regard to attendance at least. The Council is working in the right direction and its notices should command attention...
...George Junior Republic and later was chosen one of its trustees. In 1896, he was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention; two years later he ran for lieutenant-governor of New York on the Independent or Citizens' Union ticket. Mr. Osborne was twice elected mayor of Auburn, his home town, in 1902 and again in 1904. Two years ago he was chosen as delegate to the State Democratic Convention. Since June, 1907, he has served as a member of the Public Utilities Commission in New York...
...Freshman class will meet in front of Beck Hall at 3 o'clock this afternoon to march to Soldiers Field to cheer the team at its last home practice before the annual football game with the Yale freshmen. A band will head the procession and A. G. Cable '09, G. H. Balch '12, R. Lowell '12 and H. de Windt '12 will lead the cheering. As the game is in New Haven on Saturday, the class will have no other opportunity than today's to cheer the team on the field and show interest and enthusiasm for its success...
...postal savings bank was shown during the recent panic, when foreigners bought $8,000,000 worth of money orders drawn to themselves, rather than trust to the banks. All European countries have adopted this system, so that the ignorant foreigner, accustomed to have the security of the government at home, is totally at a loss in this country. As a result he sends his money home, to Europe. This loss could easily be stopped by the establishment of these postal savings banks. The farmer, who hoards his savings, would also entrust them to a safe and convenient institution...
...know something of the affectionate reverence of Harvard men for Professor Norton, and I know that, for many and many of them, he stands for all that they hoped to acquire at Harvard--in a word, for Culture. When admitted to the hospitality of his home I have realized something of the feeling of the Harvard undergraduate with regard to Professor Norton's home and its influence. I have felt that I breathed there the true atmosphere of that university of the poets;--for while there have been notable poets at other universities, the Cambridge of America, like the Cambridge...