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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...victory. In the first half Williams started off with a rush and caught the University players off their guard. Two careless fumbles in the Harvard backfield, hard tackling by the Williams ends, who followed the ball exceedingly well, resulted in a touchdown for Williams in less than five minutes after the kick-off. Throughout the remainder of the half Harvard was played to a standstill and the half ended with the score 6 to 0 in favor of its opponents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILLIAMS BARELY DEFEATED | 10/11/1909 | See Source »

...usually elected to the board from each class, and six places are to be filled this year from 1912. There will be no competition for Freshmen during the first half-year, experience having shown that the work of men during their first few months in Cambridge is of less value to the paper and to the candidates themselves than later in their College course. The competition in the second half-year, and two competitions next year, will be open to members of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON COMPETITION. | 10/9/1909 | See Source »

...college world have of late been assailed by many discordant voices, all of them earnest, most of them well-informed, and speaking in every case with a tone of confidence in the possession of the true solution. One theory, often broached under different forms, and more or less logically held, is that the main object of the college should be to prepare for the study of a definite profession, or the practice of a distinct occupation; and that the subjects pursued should, for the most part, be such as will furnish the knowledge immediately useful for that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT INSTALLED | 10/6/1909 | See Source »

There is nothing to frighten the timid newcomer in the buskined jester who holds the foaming glass on high. His welcome is rousing. It is echoed, though less boisterously, in the first editorial, which is devoted to the Freshman class. One sentence in this editorial is significant as showing the profound insight of the present board into the condition of Lampoon humor. "To an honored few of you," speaks the oracle, "will undoubtedly come the honor of rejuvenating the Great University Comie." This prophecy so modestly expressed, may be only a pious hope; let us humbly pray, however...

Author: By Hermann Hagrdorn., | Title: Review of Current Lampoon | 10/6/1909 | See Source »

...first touchdown was the result of a punt which Yale recovered less than ten yards from the Syracuse goal and carried over the line in one play. Just before the close of the half Daly kicked a goal from the field from the 35-yard line. The only score in the second half came from a forward pass, which Vaughan, the Yale end caught on the 10-yard line and carried over for a touch-dawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Syracuse Defeated by Yale, 15-0 | 10/4/1909 | See Source »

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