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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This year's team, Coach Marshall said, is being given excellent support, which it rightly deserves. Desperation, the state of many former teams, has often tied a score, but only triumphant confidence wins the game. Every undergraduate should give all his spirit to the team and victory is assured...
...completion of the Longwood rail-road bridge, the project of a new and wider bridge over the Charles river ac Boylston street, Cambridge, will be again considered. During the past few years the present bridge has been several times condemned by the government inspectors and as often patched up to meet the requirements. There has been a long-felt need for a better approach to Soldiers Field from the Cambridge side than the present structure affords, but as the river is still a navigable waterway owing to the few barges and lighters which ply between the one or two remaining...
...Lincoln were the best men in rushing the ball, and also were very strong in the secondary defense, but in rushing the ball, Lockwood seemed unable to take advantage of his own speed. In the backfield Starr and Newhall handled the numerous punts from Mount Pleasant almost perfectly, and often got away from the fast Carlisle ends for gains of from five to 15 yards...
...enlarged: this is demanded by the increased size of the University. The qualifications of all candidates, except those for the first eight are to be investigated and reported by a membership committee. At present no such method of determining the fitness of candidates exists, and the members are often ignorant of the actual qualifications of the men on whom they vote. The election of the five additional members is to be entirely in the hands of the undergraduates. At present the graduate Society, which often has little to go on expect the academic records, can prevent the election...
...main reason for these changes, as set forth in the report of the committee, is that the classes are now so large that men of considerable intellectual force and wide interests are often crowded out by men whose sole aim is study. Grades have ceased to be in every case a just statement of a man's intellectual worth. Hence a larger membership, and more freedom of choice are necessary. That this freedom may be exercised intelligently methods for a careful examination of each candidate's claims to election must be arranged. This is made possible by the plan...