Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...past three weeks a number of prominent graduates, including wellknown men from New York and New England have been earnestly engaged in an undertaking which bids fair to result in one of the most important steps in advance for Harvard athletics which has been made in years. It is proposed to form a strongly organized Graduate Athletic Association. The object of the association will be to gather into an authoritative, active body, the full strength of graduate experience and energy, to give assistance and advice to the undergraduates. Its function, however, will be purely that of an advisory body...
...support of a large number of graduates is essential to success. To this end we have planned to make the yearly dues small-two dollars-and to omit the usual initiation fee. We urge you to signify your willingness to join the proposed Association by signing the card enclosed and mailing it at once to Edgar N. Wrightington, 1009 Tremont Building, Boston...
Judging from the energy which has already been expended by a large number of prominent graduates, here and in New York, there is every reason to hope that within a few weeks the plan announced for forming a Graduate Athletic Association will become a practical reality. The value of such an organization, efficiently managed, will increase each year of its existence, and its field of usefulness should continually broaden...
...number of the Advocate, which appears today, contains two distinctly good bits of prose: One, a paper on Rudyard Kipling, is able and clear-sighted; the other, called "Of the Grain That's Spilled," is a slight but strong story told in a simple and energetic style. It would be a source of gratification if the Advocate would publish more stories of this kind instead of the polite society twaddle which appears so often in its pages...
...Lathrop then spoke of the training and of the good it would do men even if they did not make the team. On account of the increasing number of candidates there will be several special coaches this year for some of the events. These will coach the men particularly on style...