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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...rules are in many respects highly profitable toward victory. Thus coaching from the side-lines, off-side playing, holding, and disabling opponents by kneeing and kicking, and by heavy blows on the head and particularly about eyes, nose, and jaw, are unquestionably profitable toward victory; and no means have been found of preventing these violations of rules by both coaches and players. Some players, to be sure, are never guilty of them, and some are only guilty of them when they lose their tempers; but others are habitually guilty of them." The common justification offered for these "hateful conditions," President...
...would also offer you the prizes in life which all men crave, for I would paint the pictures in true, warm colors and thus win you to the true faith--I mean the conviction that life is happiest for the man whose every faculty is well developed...
...many years without subsidies; indeed the practice of helping them out from the general funds was of recent origin. Nevertheless, the amount of money still assigned to them under the heading "Permanent equipment" makes a respectable sum, Again, to give an idea of how an apparently trifling item may mean a really considerable total, we can take the case of the granting of sweaters, medals, photographs, etc. The Committee has restricted its donations in this respect as overgenerous, and yet, though the minor teams and Freshmen have to pay for themselves, the annual expense to the common treasury comes...
...width varying from 140 to 490 feet. It will consist of two masonry retaining walls on pole foundations, the space between them being filled with earth to a depth of from 15 to 50 feet. At the ends the height of the dam will be 21 feet above mean low water, about the present level of the street at the Cambridge end of Craigie bridge. On the lower side of the dam there will be a roadway 85 feet wide, and on the upper side a park or embankment of 6 3-4 acres. There will also be an esplanade...
...Watertown. There will be 17 1-2 miles of shore-line, nearly all of which will be devoted to park purposes, the land having been purchased by the Metropolitan Park Commission and the City of Cambridge. The level of the basin will be about 2 feet below the present mean high tide level...