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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first. After you have done your academic work, Harvard College calls upon you for service. One of the hardest things for a man is to preserve his balance when demands are made upon him. Ask yourself what Harvard College is. It is the result of self-sacrifice for the past 270 years. I particularly want you to remember how your life here is going to affect those at home. All that Harvard University demands of a student is that he be a gentleman in the broadest sense and faithfully perform his College duties...
Football practice began on September 10, the work at first being very light on account of the warm weather and consisting of passing and punting. The squad now numbers 47 men, and during the past week the candidates have been very thoroughly drilled in all departments of the game. The men have shown considerable speed and understanding of the new rules, and there has been a noticeable improvement not only in the usual line plays, but also in the new forward pass and onside punt to which particular attention has been given. There is every prospect of a strong team...
...considerable delicacy and in a wholesome spirit. Besides, R. M. Arkush '07 has courage to sign his sketch, and he gets his reward in the achievement of a kind of sincerity not easily cultivated under anonymity. In his discussion of "Swinburne's Relation to the Poetry of the Immediate Past and Future" J. H. Wheelock '08 is not quite articulate and not always grammatical. He is touched with some of the verbal diseases that afflict the poet of his admiration--the excessive use of abstract terms, and the reluctance to tell us precisely and specifically what he is talking about...
Henry Herbert Edes, "New England antiquarian and annalist, accurate reproducer of a reverenced past...
...annual dues for active membership are $10, and any student enrolled in a department of the University during the current academic year may have his membership dues charged on the University term bill. Associate membership, with annual dues of $5, payable in advance, is open to officers and past members of the University residing within twenty-five miles of Cambridge, and students in the departments located outside of Cambridge. This form of membership gives no privilege of voting...