Word: matters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...represent Harvard, and should therefore no longer be allowed to enter intercollegiate competitions. This is the unsportsmanlike spirit with which basketball, after a slow decline, was last year buried by action of the Athletic Committee. It is the spirit which, if persisted in, will kill any sport, no matter how flourishing it may once have been...
...editorial pages there is a well-expressed note on the fatality at West Point and also almost as a matter of course some speculation on changes in Harvard economy that may be made by President Lowell. Discussing studies and methods the Advocate insists that "conditions at Harvard are such as to make the adoption of the English system or its modified form now used at Princeton impossible." Still following the more serious pages of the Advocate note must be made of "A Vindication of Warren Hastings"--a review of G. W. Hastings's book...
...understand that the War Department is postponing, if not preventing, the erection of the new bridge by insisting that it must have a draw. Now a draw is an expensive and unornamental luxury, but if the War Department is disposed to be arbitrary in the matter, then let us have a bridge with a draw, provided only that it be wide, strong, and reasonably artistic. The old wooden relic has been too long an eyesore in its attractive surroundings, a menace to the lives of the many who are forced to use it, and an obstruction to traffic...
...should be no very difficult matter to provide music at Memorial Hall two or three times a week through the football season. Last year an expenditure of $40 a week secured a small but sufficient orchestra twice a week during the dinner hour. The $280 necessary was raised by subscription from the men in the Hall...
...would seem to be a matter of common courtesy and of loyalty to the football team that members of the University should refrain from attempting to watch the secret practice in the Stadium. Coaches and players have been annoyed during the past week by students, and others encouraged by their example, who have tried to see the practice from vantage points about the wooden fence and from favorable places near the Locker Building. It is quite possible to have the grounds so closely patrolled as to prevent these childish performances, but we hope this word of warning will make such...