Word: letting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...quarter of the men at Oxford row or teach the novices to row. Four or five hundred of them go to the river every afternoon although the Isis is hardly wide enough for a good throw with a cat and hardly deep enough to drown her. Let no Anglophobia persuade us to despise a good game because it is English. We ought to be willing to learn of the Patagonians if they can teach us. There are hundreds of men in our dear University who are tired of the fun of watching star players. How did Theodore Roosevelt take...
...cannot run for office. Why not leave the choice to the committee, which is selected so as to be as representative as possible, and accept their decision as final? If there seems to be very crying need of additional nominations, then make use of the provision for petitions, but let only such men sign as really intend to back the candidate, the then there will be no more of this confusion. If this sort of thing continues it will soon be easier for nominating committees to reverse their present custom and decide who ought not to be nominated...
...destined to see in coming years a religious advance greater than ever before. Momentous questions are to be decided, as, for instance, that which confronts us in regard to those Oriental countries whose ignorant millions are dependent upon us. We seek an open door for commerce in the East; let us not pass by the door already open for the entrance of religion...
...above, of course, is the broad way of putting it, but the fundamental rule is absolutely necessary. Let Harvard football be unafraid of hurting some one's feelings. Our chief opponent, Yale, has gone through exactly the same experience in football that Harvard has encountered, but her eyes have been opened quicker, and her visiting coaches, and her coaches that are not directly responsible through the head coach have come in ample numbers to New Haven, have been rightly welcomed, and have done a lot of good...
...Let out your voices now so lend and hale...