Word: minded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...organization of the Athletic Committee as announced this morning will perhaps serve to call particularly to mind the valuable service which has been rendered to the University as a whole, and particularly to the undergraduates, by that body. The Athletic Committee has always had a hard row to hoe, and its work is none the less arduous because it is carried on in a very quiet, unpretentious way. In spite of the delicacy of its position, half-way between the students and a Faculty which is rather unfavorably inclined toward athletics, the committee has succeeded in maintaining a standard...
...members of the class of 1901, therefore, bear in mind that they are here not merely to get what they can out of the University, but, no less, to do what they can for the University, and that by doing so they will acquire a capacity for friendship, and a power to sympathize with and know other men, which will be of immense practical value to them in the future...
...letter from the Class Day Committee urging Seniors to conform to their agreement with the Corporation in regard to the conduct of the Tree exercises must have the attention and the respect of every member of the class. It should be borne in mind that the Corporation is strongly opposed to the exercises as they have been held in former years. It was thought in February that the old quadrangle back of Hollis, where the exercises are held, had been outgrown, and that the wearing of football clothes and the formation of combinations in the scrimmage were undesirable features...
...great body of the undergraduates was concerned, the celebration of the evening was apparently to be an unqualified success; but now the "muckerism"- vandalism is too classic a term-of a few men in painting the John Harvard statue has probably already effaced in the public mind any recollection of the more rational joy of the many...
...Harvard having won the Freshman football game and Yale the Freshman boat race. The Yale Junior team, according to reports, is unusually strong for a class team, so that the game will probably be a close one and well worth going to see. The spectators should also bear in mind that this will be the first Harvard-Yale athletic contest to take place in Cambridge since the renewal of athletic relations between the two universities, that the Yale men play here of their own preference, and that for these reasons the visitors should get a hearty reception...