Word: letting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...presence of persistent and vicious outsiders who monopolized a large share of the proceedings. For those men in 1912 who have not yet become acquainted with our ways of conducting affairs, and for certain restless elements in the Sophomore class, who can present not even a plea of ignorance, let it be said that the first Monday of College has ceased to be any different from any other Monday and that any attempts at disturbance of any kind are in direct opposition to the general sentiment of the great majority of undergraduates...
...chances of the entire year to show the crew the appreciation of the University will be this afternoon when there will be cheering in the Square before the men leave. Let everyone be there and show the crew we have their interests at heart and have confidence in their ability...
McCall played a steady game at second after his lay-off, accepting seven chances without a misplay. Harding livened the team up on first considerably, and, though he let a grounder get through him in the first inning, he made some clever pick-ups of low throws, and by a splendid one-hand catch in the ninth prevented Simons's high throw from being an error. At the bat he showed good form, securing a timely single, and a neat sacrifice. Leonard played a finished game on third, getting everything within reach, and in the eighth started a fast double...
...shame to let such an excellent custom disappear, especially one in which there is so much to be gained and enjoyed by Harvard men. After all is said and done, there are times when most of us yearn just a little for a touch of that more compactly organized life of the small college--not by any means all of it--but the freer and a little more universal fellowship of those communities which have a different constitution from ours. And the Yard concerts would help to foster this...
Something exists: however reckless and extravagant this statement seems, let us accept it provisionally and term that something ourselves. Man is a compound of a material part called the body, and an intangible part called the soul. The facts about the body are simple; the soul being invisible is only assumed to exist, first through its apparent effects, secondly through self-consciousness. There is but one form of self-consciousness to which we are not passive; we may feel pain or sensation, but we never say that we feel the will. It is always subjective and active...