Word: letting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...play clean football, even if they lose by it. If the football rules are bad they should be changed, but while they remain in force they must be lived up to. When a man plays awkwardly, but does his best, don't laugh at him,--cheer him. Finally, let us play the game savagely and fiercely but cleanly...
Despite the fact that the Advocate begins the year with a welcome innovation--a new cover and smoother paper--the same conservative merits remain. The usual shortcoming of the paper, its ultra "literary" tone, is not so noticeable as of old. If the Advocate is to do its best, let the classic Pegasus continue to be enlivened for the "average undergraduate" by the common oats and bran of stories that are local and present and by poems whose subjects are tangible...
Before the season comes to a close it seems worth while to make a fresh attempt to explain the financial policy of the Athletic Committee during the past year and to answer some of the criticisms which its action has provoked. To begin with, let me try to clear away a few persistent errors...
...face our dormitory situation manfully we must prepare to take heroic measures." If matters are wrong now because of it it is probable that they will be still further wrong with each year in which we hesitate and temporize. The dormitory situation must be met manfully. But let us first come to a very candid understanding as to what the "dormitory situation" is; and as we have all spent some time at Cambridge and have a common foundation of data obtained from experience and personal contact, let us not befog the discussion with too much preliminary analysis of classes, clubs...
...expect to get work on the new Trophy Room started (hanging pictures, putting up flags, etc.) in a week. If the $150 can be raised by the end of the year, work can be begun on the case at once. If not, we shall have to let the case go over till next year, and trust to luck for getting it the, while we shall spend a part of the $250 at present in our hands for the purpose of doing the various odd jobs referred to above. Yours very truly, R. B. MERRIMAN, F. R. APPLETON...