Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...returning to Cambridge, the three stern men, Lund, Curtis, and Parson, were shifted to the first boat. The crew came along well in the ten days proceeding the Cornell race but suffered defeat by a narrow margin...
...should be automatically elected with possibly five more after the announcement of prizes and degrees at the end of the Senior year. If the eight to thirty-five men to whom the responsibility of perpetuating Phi Beta Kappa is yearly entrusted were omniscient, such a standard would be foolishly narrow; but they are not omniscient, and the consideration of personality is all too liable to oreep insidiously in, and displace the primary and higher consideration -- for their purpose--of scholarship...
...were filled with hot smoke, which soon rushed through the ventilating fine and heated it to a dangerous degree. The city fire department quickly extinguished the flames before the fire had burnt through the floor of the dining room; but the escape of the building from destruction was so narrow, that the Corporation later caused a fire-proof floor to be substituted in the Hall for the preceding hollow structure of wood...
Yesterday's Interclass Track Meet was won by the class of 1915 by the narrow margin of 2 1-2 points, (45-42 1-2), over the class of 1914. The Freshmen, with only 3 points, took last place. The most exciting race of the afternoon was the two-mile run, in which R. St. B. Boyd '14 and F. H. Blackman '14 ran a "dual" race, the former winning by inches over the latter, who in turn was about '75 or 100 yards ahead of C. Southworth '15, the next man. In the 440-yard dash W. A. Barron...
There are those perhaps who, looking upon a University in a narrow sense, will throw up their hands in horror at the expenditure of $155,000 for the athletics of Harvard. Two things are to be thought of, however, before a wholesale condemnation of these figures is passed. In the first place athletics have so great an influence on the general reputation of an American University as to be almost a necessity. This may or may not be theoretically right, but it is an important practical consideration. In the second place, a University should offer opportunities for the development...