Word: less
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University football schedule for 1909, as announced by Captain Fish yesterday, contains nine games, one less than last year. Carlisle, Annapolis and Springfield Training School have been dropped, and West Point and Cornell added. The West Point game will necessitate the only absence form Cambridge. Harvard played West Point last in 1906 and won, 5 to 0. Cornell appeared last on the schedule in 1897, when the University team won, 24 to 0. The schedule for next fall subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee is as follows...
...early crudeness is being dropped. Newton at stroke and Strong at 6 seem to have been changes for the better. In the rest of the squad, with the possible exception of the second Freshman, there have been such repeated changes that the men are as yet more or less of an unknown quantity...
...minor sports made an advance over last year in an effort toward self-support, the total deficit being $300 less. On the other hand, subscriptions for six Freshman sports were very much poorer than for the same sports a year ago. The great decrease in the expenses of the Freshman crew may be attributed to a more equitable apportionment of the total New London expense, of which the Freshmen had been paying more than their share...
...increase of nearly $20,000 in the receipts from University football is the result of the Yale game having been played in Cambridge, where the seating capacity is greater than at New Haven. The expenses are approximately $4,000 less than last year and over $9,000 less than two years ago, when the high-water mark of extravagance was reached. The reform has come in training table bills, supplies, trainers' and coaches' salaries, and travelling expense...
...Corporation, realizing the seriousness of the dining hall situation, has appointed a managing committee to take charge of Memorial and Randall during the remaining months of the year. A serious problem confronts the members of this committee, for the two halls have been less and less prosperous every year. A few years ago it was necessary to apply ahead of time to get into the Harvard Dining Association, and a large waiting list was maintained. Now, the Association is glad to get anyone to help fill up the empty tables. The responsibility for this state of affairs must...