Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...begin with, and with a schedule shorter than most of the other teams have, it is no wonder that a majority of the games are lost, some of them to colleges half the size of Harvard. The under-graduates must not forget that in many places basketball ranks as one of the major sports, and our opponents think that the game is on the same footing here as it is with them. Victories by such colleges are celebrated with bonfires and general rejoicing, and are almost as much appreciated as triumphs in what Harvard considers the major sports...
...purpose of this trip, which is similar to the one President and Mrs. Eliot started on Sunday, was to visit some of the leading state universities of the country, to be present at the meetings of various Harvard Clubs, and to discuss with high school principals and others the subject of college entrance examinations. Among the institutions which Mr. Greene visited were the Universities of Michigan, Chicago, and Wisconsin...
...fifth of the series of eight concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be given in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. There will be several selections from Mendelssohn, in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the birthday of the composer. The program will be as follows: Part I.--Mendelssohn: Overture, "Fingal's Cave"; Scherzo from the music to Shakspere's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; Symphony No. 3, in A minor, "Scotch." Part II.--Scheinpflug: Overture to a comedy of Shakspere (with use of an old English melody of the sixteenth century), for full orchestra...
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT. Sanders Theatre, 8 P. M. Program: Part I. In commemoration of Mendelssohn's one hundredth birthday,--born at Hamburg, February 3, 1809. Mendelssohn: Overture, "Fingal's Cave"; Scherzo from the music to Shakspere's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; Symphony No. 3, in A minor "Scotch." Part II. Scheinpflug, Overture to a Comedy of Shakspere (with use of an old English melody of the sixteenth century), for full orchestra, op. 15; Wagner, Prelude and "Love Death" from "Tristan and Isolde...
...become rather the pose of many Harvard undergraduates to profess ignorance of everything in Cambridge not intimately connected with their pursuit of happiness. At the mention of glass flowers or vesper services, they assume an intensely cynical look and say that these are excellent things to amuse one's family, but really hardly worthy of note. They are rather proud of this absurd affectation, and consider themselves quite superior if they get away from Cambridge without making the most of their opportunities...