Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reason Harvard is such a good training ground is because it is an exact replica, on a small scale, of the outside world. Here one meets all the outward indifference that one finds when he starts in on a business career. Here one can make a success in any number of ways, in athletics, in studies, socially, economically, even morally. But the whole course of four years is-nothing but one big competition, no matter in what field of distinction one is interested. Even the man who does nothing at all, must do that better than the majority in order...
Specialty numbers will be introduced by H. Elliott, Jr., '22 and J. Sargent '22 who have been playing together for various events during the winter with considerable success. C. E. Bricken of Yale will also render a specialty number Chopin's Pianoforte Scherzo, Op. 30. Tickets at $1.65 and $1.10 apiece are on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's, the Coop. Branch, and at the office of E. A. Hill '19, in the CRIMSON Building...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is sending the largest number of competitors, while the University comes fifth with 45 men entered. The names of the other colleges with the number of men entered is as follows: Yale, 58; Cornell, 52; Princeton, 48; Pennsylvania, 37; Pittsburg, 30; Johns Hopkins, 24; Lafayette, 22; Michigan, 21; Fordham, 20; Columbia, 19; Swarthmore, 11; Amherst, 11; New York University, 10; Syracuse, 10; Rutgers, 9; Bowdoin, 8; Georgetown, 6; Maine, 6; and Haverford...
...half-mile there are the largest number of competitors, the total being 104. There are 103 entered in the 100, 220, and 440 yard runs. The University has entered 11 men in the hundred-yard dash, while Dartmouth, Yale, and M. I. T. are sending 12 men each. The quarter-mile will have a dozen University and Dartmouth runners, with 11 Elis. Two prominent contestants in the mile are D. F. O'Connell '21 and Klemspehm of Lafayette. Dussu, Cornell's two-miler, who won the event at Philadelphia, will have 99 men with which to compete. Edman of Princeton...
...been sent from this side of the water. Without aid from home, except in this one regard, these Americans in a foreign country have produced from the resources at hand a complete ready-made university, whose 10,000 students have 200 study courses to choose from, and whose instructors number 500 thoroughly qualifed men, all of them trained teachers, some of them America's best...