Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...know when the next contest between Harvard and Yale and Oxford and Cambridge will take place, but I think the challenge or invitation should come from alternate countries and not necessarily from a defeated team. In may opinion it would be a pity to hold these sports annually, and I believe this view is supported by the athletes of the universities concerned. If the sports were held at short intervals there would be a tendency for the interest to wane, there would also be a difficulty regarding university arrangements, and it might not always be easy to meet the expenses...
...students particularly desirous of keeping in perfect health it may be of interest to know that every snow-storm is followed by a marked increase in the number of cases of nasal colds, the various forms of sore throat, coughs, less frequently catarrhal disturbances of the intestinal tract, and occasionally more serious illness. This is probably largely due to the fact that comparatively few students wear rubbers or overshoes, and that it is impossible without such protection to walk in several inches of snow and keep the feet dry. Wet feet are probably more prolific of the above diseases than...
...curious idea that young men benefit from dabblings in vices. The book will be of much interest to Harvard men, but it should be most gladly welcomed by those who will find in it a little piece of the personality which it has not been given them to know more intimately...
...know, an unfortunate time to present this suggestion because, it is unhappily the fact, that in the last two races Harvard has been beaten by Yale after the three mile mark was passed, and therefore it can, and will be said that Harvard wishes to row three miles, because she cannot win at four. This is a discussion into which I will not go at present. I offer this suggestion now, because I believe that all the boys (men if you prefer so to call them) not only of Harvard, but also of Yale, who take part in these contests...
...believe it to be a fact that the men who have taken part in the contests of past years have been seriously injured thereby. Nevertheless the strain is a very severe one, greater than in any other of our College contests, and many men have, I know, felt the effects of it for a very considerable period...