Word: latters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania. This can be accomplished if the other five colleges will consent to a schedule on the tournament plan in place of the present one, which requires each team to play two games with every other member of the league. The latter arrangement prevented the University from entering the Intercollegiate League this year because it necessitated five over-night absences, and three is the number allowed by the Athletic Committee. All the games in Cambridge next season will be held in the evening, since the Gymnasium cannot be secured for any afternoon...
...Charles River Basin Commission last autumn submitted to the War Department its general construction plans for the Charles river dam. The contract has been awarded and work was begun last week. The dam will be erected a short distance below the Craigie or East Cambridge bridge, and the latter will be torn down and a temporary bridge constructed to take its traffic. The cost of the dam, which will not be completed for three years, will be about $2,500,000, or rather less than the original estimate. Unlimited appropriations have been voted by the state legislature and the work...
...members of the 1904 baseball nine has been postponed from this evening to Thursday evening, March 30, at the Hotel Westminster, on account of the inability of many well-known graduates to attend the dinner this week. W. T. Reid, Jr., '01, who will arrive in Boston the latter part of this month, will be one of the guests at the dinner, as it is intended to make it a sort of welcome to him as well as a compliment to the nine...
...discussion of University problems is introduced by two excerpts from President Eliot's report, "The Evils of Football" and "The Financial Situation." The latter provides a suitable background to Professor Gardiner's article on "The Future of Harvard College," which develops practically into an appeal for increased endowment. The writer finds that it is desirable to reduce the number, or rather "make . . . over into interested and active students" the "too many men here who live a life of athletic or ornamental leisure," to secure for the undergraduate something of that same vigorous and sustained mental training that accompanies study...
...university basketball team defeated Cornell on Saturday, February 11 at Ithaca; but was defeated by Columbia on Wednesday, February 15 by the score of 32 to 28. The latter game was very closely contested, the result being in doubt until the very end. On Saturday, February 18 the team defeated Pennsylvania at Philadelphia by the score of 28 to 20. The superiority of the Princeton players was noticeable in their team work, although the goal throwing of the Pennsylvania team was the better...