Word: manned
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seemingly foolish usages of smaller colleges we are over anxious to be free from anything similar. An example of the better sort of tradition is that which some years ago prompted undergraduates to remove their hats when passing through the Newell Gate, out of respect for the man whose name it bears...
...shooting team lost to the Boston Athletic Association at Riverside on Saturday afternoon by the score of 191 to 213, out of a possible 250. The silver cup, offered by the B. A. A. to the high-score Harvard man of the two shoots this fall, has been awarded to W. S. Brooks '10, who scored 84 out of a possible 100 in the two shoots...
...subjects which demand much experience and mature philosophy, Mr. D. M. Cheney wisely chooses to deal with incidents and emotions which, though not commonplace are well within his power. In "The Wizard of the Garden," he has a simple plot,--merely the growth of friendship between a lonely old man and an imaginative boy. Perhaps he has not always made the latter's talk sufficiently childlike, but possibly he was afraid thus to disturb the charming atmosphere of romanticism in which his characters dwell. His story has truth to human nature and beauty of expression. For publishing work of this...
President Eliot in his address from the steps of Holworthy said that twenty years ago nobody knew anything about John Harvard. His parentage, education, and life were a mystery. Since 1884, through the researches of a Harvard man, Mr. Henry F. Waters '55, more has been found about John Harvard than about almost any other man of colonial times. We know that he and all his kindred were tradesmen--butchers, cloth makers, coopers, goldsmiths--and that for several generations they lived in Southwark, one of the humblest quarters of London...
...Harvard team who shall have made the highest score in the two shoots. In the first shoot with the B. A. A., held two weeks ago, W. S. Brooks '10 and C. L. Hauthaway '10 tied for first place with 43 out of a possible 50 birds. Today each man will shoot at 50 birds in strings of 10 and 15, thrown at unknown angles...