Word: papered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...scoreless tie. Although these two teams had met the day before, the game on the 15th was the first of interest owing to the fact that it was played under the Canadian code of rules. The principal difference between the Harvard and Canadian rules was, to quote a daily paper of that date, that "under the Harvard rules the ball must be kicked over a rope extending across the entire field while according to McGill's plan the ball must be kicked over a wooden bar 10 feet from the ground." For some time previous to the contest, the team...
Little attention was paid this contest by the public, mention of it being found in only one Boston paper, and that confined to a scant ten lines announcing the game and ending with this single sentence of general criticism of the affair. "There was a large crowd and much enthusiasm." In spite of the lack of general interest which it aroused, this game on May 15, 1874, marked the beginning of a football regime which has reached its highest point before 49,000 spectators today...
...entrance of the CRIMSON to the new Crimson Building at 14-20 Plympton street yesterday marks a new era in the history of the newspaper. The large CRIMSON printed today, the first to be issued from the new building, in a measure dedicates the splendid new quarters of the paper. Though the copies of the last two months have been printed in the Crimson Printing Company's new offices in the rear of the building, today's paper is the first to be compiled and edited in the new building itself. The temporary offices that have been occupied since...
Harvard is not on a "war footing" in spite of the headlines of a Boston paper, as the Alumni Bulletin points out. But the question of giving technical military instruction in American colleges is becoming insistent, and will soon have to be answered. University presidents throughout the country are in general conspicuous advocates of preparation for defense. President Lowell has consistently supported the movement; President Hibben of Princeton, in an article reprinted in the Illustrated, urges Princetonians to take advantage of the summer military camps; and President Hadley has gone so far as to suggest the advisability of military instruction...
...Advocate held an initiation dinner in the Sanctum in the Union last evening. Several former editors were present, including William Gibbs Peckham '67, the founder of the paper. T. T. Baldwin '12 presided. G. H. Edgell '09, the Rev. Edward Hale '79, and Frederic Schenck '09 were also present...