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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...game was never in doubt, for Columbia showed little team-work, and during the entire game made only four attempts to score, all of which were in the second half. The Columbia defense was very strong, especially Murphy, at goal, who stopped many hard shots, thus helping to keep the score down. Owing to lack of practice and the weakness of Columbia, the University team did not show concerted action nor a speedy attack. Ford and Willetts, although on the defense, scored three of the five goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLUMBIA EASILY DEFEATED | 1/11/1909 | See Source »

...cause of the socialist movement. Here the new party has not gained great power in the government, but it has driven out the dishonest men by opposing to them honest men in every election. In all countries, except the United States, political parties are passing bills to keep down the socialist vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Growth and Power of Socialism | 12/19/1908 | See Source »

...only the right to govern himself; when he governs others, therefore, he may only do so with the full consent of the governed. Lincoln stated an undeniable truth when he said, "No man is good enough to govern another without that one's consent." Yet we keep the Philippine Islands without the least regard to the wishes of the natives. Out of these conditions two questions arise: first, the question of right and the possibility of success; second, the method of escape from our position, in case our present policy is sure to fail. This is the Philippine problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONDITIONS IN PHILIPPINES | 12/4/1908 | See Source »

When the Harvard Dining Association was in the throes of despair last winter in its attempts to maintain a respectably large membership and at the same time keep down the price of the general board, the Corporation decided to lend its aid. A fixed guaranty of four dollars was finally decided upon and the new scheme of allowances for absences and the establishing of table for transients seemed at the time to warrant the guaranty. After the guaranty was removed, however, the boarders were left to the tender mercies of the Association and the Corporation withdrew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COST OF BOARD AT MEMORIAL. | 12/3/1908 | See Source »

...Baldwin began his lecture by describing the conditions in the Arctic Sea. There exist vast ice-packs that move slowly along the course of least resistance. The obstruction of Greenland and America on one side and of Asia and the northern archipelago on the other keep the ice in the Arctic Sea. Much of it piles up on the shores in great packs; the rest is forced by the southern winds from Alaska in a narrow path across the polar regions. A cache set adrift at Point Barrow on the Alaskan coast by Captain Melville of the Jeannette, was picked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEEKING THE NORTH POLE | 12/2/1908 | See Source »

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