Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...quickly opened a three-quarter length lead; then when the stroke settled to 40 a minute for Harvard and 36 for Cornell, the University crew held its advantage as far as the Harvard Bridge. There Cornell had begun to creep up and soon passed Harvard, although still rowing a lower stroke. Below the bridge both crews were greatly handicapped by the rough water. At the finish, the University crew made a short spurt, which partly cut down Cornell's lead, but crossed the line a length and a quarter behind the Ithacans. Cornell's time was 9 minuates, 38 seconds...
...jump at the start, although not so much as in the university race. The Cornell freshmen, however, soon overcame this lead, and down to the bridge the crews were neck and neck, Cornell rowing 32 strokes a minute and Harvard 36. Again Cornell drew away in the lower half of the Basin, finishing a length and three-quarters in the lead in 9 minutes, 56 seconds. The Harvard Freshmen finished in 10 minutes and 1 second...
Today and tomorrow the Senior picnickers will have the opportunity of purchasing the finest and latest in hattings together with the loudest and flashiest in bathing trunks. They will be on sale on the lower floor of Stoughton between 12 and 1.30 today and tomorrow. Every Senior is supposed to take unto himself one of each, for which he will duff up the incidental yet essential sum of 25 cents. Tin cups will also be heady for distribution today and rumor hath it that they may also be essential paraphernalia. As today and tomorrow are the only times when Seniors...
...addition, Seniors are expected to don the official 1914 headgear which will be yellow caps with numerals on the visors. These caps together with bathing trunks, of many colors will be on sale from the windows of the lower floor of the north entry of Stoughton tomorrow and Thursday between the 12 and 1.30 o'clock periods. This will be the only opportunity for procuring these essentials of good dressing and members of the class are urged to get them at one of these times. The price for both the cap and trunks will be 25 cents--payable in advance...
Education is a desirable, but not a necessary qualification for citizenship in this country. Partial assimilation of the immigrant is obvious, but complete assimilation is unnecessary. A literacy requirement would lower the standard of living, rather than raise it, through its effect upon wages. Unemployment cannot be attributed to immigration, nor is the birth-rate affected by it. And the American standard of living depends upon the relation of wages to the cost of living which will not be raised by this literacy requirement...