Word: knows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been pushed with its former energy. The matter comes forcibly to mind with the coming of the winter months when outdoor exercise grows more and more difficult. A Freshman committee could be appointed with a few hours of careful thought, and we might in a few weeks know Nineteen-Seventeen's feelings with regard to the project...
...know that John Harvard was baptised on November 29, 1607. By an application of History and elementary Arithmetic to this fact, we conclude that he was born on November 26, 1607, for in those days children were baptised when three days old. The evidence is purely circumstantial, but it is strong enough to warrant a celebration in honor of John Harvard on the three hundred and sixth anniversary of his birth. And so the Memorial Society, whose purpose it is to preserve Harvard traditions and records, has planned a short gathering in the Delta by Memorial Hall tomorrow morning...
...McGill's plan the ball must be kicked over a wooden bar 10 feet from the ground." For some time previous to the contest the team was drilled by night on Jarvis Field. Although this game represented the crudest kind of football, compared with the game as we know it today, yet it aroused great enthusiasm among the colleges in the new Rugby rules, and it was a result of this feeling that the Harvard-Yale series was begun in 1875. A contemporary Harvard publication in speaking of the game says: "Football will be a popular game here...
...heard of odds on Yale, reasonable or unreasonable? "Harvard has a better record," say others, forgetting that games are not won on records. Harvard tried the record policy in 1910 and Yale in 1911, and neither won. "Yale has the old Yale spirit," say still others, who do not know that there is a Harvard spirit of less fame but no less power. Spirit counts, but who can say, "Here, is a true fighting spirit; there, is none?" In the end it is a question of faith, and we place ours in Harvard as Yale men place theirs in Yale...
These are cases that I know personally. There are doubtless many others...