Word: lastly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...quitting because the game doesn't suit us and we are getting beaten. There is a Rules Committee on basketball, just as there is on football, which meets every year to discuss how the game could be improved. There are five on the Committee and last year it stood three to two in favor of dribbling. Everybody who plays the game admits that that is more than half the cause of its roughness, and also doubles the difficulty of the referee's duties. By preventing dribbling it would improve the game more than a hundred per cent...
...Association of Harvard Engineers was founded at the annual dinner last year by Harvard graduates in the engineering profession, in order to facilitate the recognition of Harvard engineers in the world at large, and to be of aid to recent engineering graduates. Last year the dinner was attended by nearly 300, who were addressed by President Eliot and several of the foremost engineers in the country. This year, on account of the increased interest shown in engineering in the University, the dinner should be even more successful. Its principal importance is in the great opportunity offered men to meet those...
...print collections have been considerably augmented. To the Gray collection of engravings has been added, by purchase from the income of the Gray fund, a print of Samson and Delilah, engraved by Lucas van Leyden. Mr. James Loeb '03 has added to his last year's gift of $1000, for the purchase of 17 lead pencil drawings by Turner, the sum of $210 for a case to contain these drawings. From Mr. Walter M. Cabot the Museum has received, as an indefinite loan, a small collection of Japanese works of art, consisting of drawings, paintings and ornamental carvings...
Since February 23, the date of the first work on the water, all three crews have advanced rapidly. The University crew, of late, has run the stroke up high on the last short stretch to the boathouse, and has seemed to move along fairly well. The second boat shows a good drive and dash. The third crew has suffered much from lack of a consistent order...
...election of officers of the Weld Boat Club held yesterday afternoon at the boathouse, G. Martin '10 was elected president-captain and M. E. Peabody '11, secretary-treasurer. Last year Martin stroked the Sophomore crew, and this fall he stroked the Weld graded crew. He is at present stroking the 1910 boat. Peabody was on the Freshman squad most of last year and is at present stroking the Sophomore crew. The men will hold office for one year from the date of their election...