Word: parted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have this year. It depends largely upon whether or not Willcox leaves after mid-years. The loss of Bingham leaves two positions hard to fill, as he ran on the long and short relay teams. There seems to be no one out now who would be able to take part in both races with the possible exception of Minot...
...seem to be W. Willcox, Jr., '17, H. W. Minot '17, H. W. Rose '19 and R. U. Whitney '18. Both of the first two men ran on the relay team that defeated Yale last year. Rose ran on the 1919 team last year against Yale, and Whitney took part in the 1,560-yard race between the second relay team and Wesleyan...
...next meet in which the University runners will take part will be the triangular meet with Pennsylvania and Dartmouth on February 17. This is a new event on the winter schedule and promises some very close races, as Pennsylvania has its usual strong teams this year. The events that will make up this meet are the 40-yard dash, 45-yard hurdles, 390-yard relay, 780-yard run, mile run, high jump, shot put and probably the pole vault and broad jump...
What are the causes of this pernicious weakness? Undoubtedly they are in part world-wide, for the decline in the birth-rate among Harvard men is paralleled by a like decline among the upper and middle classes in all civilized nations and especially in America. However, this does not exonerate college men; the guilt rests even more heavily upon those who have had opportunity to see the light...
...cause is inevitably fostered by our college life. Dr. Charles W. Eliot calls it "a preference on the part of both men and women for freedom from care and responsibility, and for passing pleasures rather than solid satisfaction." It cannot be denied that our indolent college life, with its short-cuts to pleasure, with the ease of spending an evening at the theatre or idling away an afternoon in chatter and smoke, is an open temptation to passing pleasures. We must be unusually strong if these wayside temptations do not lure us aside, leaving upon our characters the indelible imprint...