Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...tournament has been abandoned because of an insufficient number of entries is another instance of the lack of interest taken in fencing at Harvard. Compared with this sport, basketball is a flourishing institution. Very few men go out for the University team, and at the class tournament last month one member of the Freshman team was absent and the Juniors were not represented at all. No wonder the University team failed to qualify for the intercollegiate tournament in the last two years. When there is so little general interest taken that the majority of the undergraduates do not know...
...cannot find fault with fencing as a sport as we can with basketball, because it has been shown to be one of the best forms of indoor exercise, and is recommended by many experts for the general development of the body. But apparently the attractions of the game do not excite the ambitions of many Harvard undergraduates, and the uniform unsuccess of the team has not tended to increase its popularity. As long as the feeling exists that the number of intercollegiate athletic contests should be reduced, and even if there were no such feeling, it would be well...
...growth of searching literary criticism during the last 25 years was treated at length by Professor Lefranc. Such investigation, however, should never dull aesthetic appreciation. Reconstruction of the social, political and economic structure of past literary periods by careful study of the works and of their sources is one of its chief tendencies. Other subjects of study are the great literary currents and the influence of women on Renaissance literature. Moliere was a conscious borrower. One of the most famous scenes in "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" was drawn from an obscure writer, de Bouscaille...
...publishing today the definitive refusal of President Eliot to accept the post of Ambassador to the Court of St. James. While forced to concur with the President in his desire for retirement from responsible duties, we cannot help echoing the disappointment felt by his admirers in both countries. No one could have upheld better than he the honor of Harvard and of the American nation, and no one could have been found more worthy of representing their noblest aspirations and ideals...
...following scholarships for 1908-09 have also been awarded: Class of 1867 Scholarship, to T. R. Schoonmaker '12, of Paterson, New Jersey, one-half, and to J. L. Weinberg '12, of Cleveland, Ohio, one-half; Mary L. Whitney Scholarship to T. P. Williams '12, of New York; George Newhall Clark Scholarship to P. Gustafson '12, of Arlington, and J. C. Trumbull '12 of Salem; Joseph Eveleth Scholarship to D. Haar '11, of New York, and A. E. Phoutrides, of Alexandria, Egypt...