Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this year's Freshman eleven, the possibilities of Graydon and Stillman must be considered. Captain Baldwin will make a good quarterback, with a chance for the first eleven when Daly leaves. Nickerson, tackle, and Clark, end, are both promising players. Hersey is a good running halfback, but has little idea of team play. Kernan, substitute back, has great abilities as a punter, which could well be developed...
...lighted except those necessary to run the machinery, and the entrance was made at slow speed. Unfortunately, just at the point of passing the outer forts the smoke pipe of the revenue cutter caught fire, reveling the American position to the enemy, who opened an ineffective fire. the general idea that the fight was an easy one should be corrected, for when we retired for the so-called "breakfast" there was only one officer on our ship who felt certain that the Spaniards were whipped. After the battle was won a blockade of the city was made...
...presence of the body of undergraduates at the football practice yesterday had the effect of livening up the playing considerably. It was difficult, however, to get any idea of the playing of the team as a whole, on account of the number of substitutes who were in the game. The only members of the team who played throughout the practice were Burden and Lawrence...
...whom the conception of a Harvard Union is due is beyond my knowledge, but we owe the fostering of the idea to many men, and we owe the grounds to the Corporation. As you see, it is the result of Harvard team work, of mutual reliance, the future abiding place of comradeship, and therefore let it never, and in no place, bear any name except that of John Harvard. We will open the doors of our house and will write over them: "The Harvard Union Welcomes to its Home All Harvard...
Photographs of the shower will be taken by the Harvard Observatories at Cambridge and Blue Hill, and by Professor Upton of Brown University who is co-operating with Professor Pickering. The idea of these three photographic stations is to give a parallax so as to see how high the meteor is from the earth's surface when it appears and disappears...