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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work of the backetball candidates during the past week consisted for the most part of practice for the interclass series, which resulted in a victory for the Sophomores. The men who were ineligible for these class teams, however, held light practice every night after the class team work was finished. It was not until Friday that the real work of the University candidates began, when practically all the men on the class teams except the Freshmen, were taken to the University squad...
President and Mrs. Eliot request the pleasure of the company of all students at the University absent from home, who may remain in Cambridge during the Christmas recess, at Phillips Brooks House on Christmas Eve, Sunday, December 24, from half-past eight to ten o'clock. Cambridge, December...
...activity. This is of vital importance. A Harvard publication says that men during the season do next to nothing in their studies, President Eliot says that the distractions of the game grow greater every year, and a prominent member of this year's Harvard team says that for the past two years University football has played havoc with his studies. Twenty-one colleges in Iowa and Illinois have passed a resolution to the effect that American football as now played is not suitable for educational institutions. This testimony proves that either study or football must be sacrificed...
...Harvard team, which will support the negative, is made up of G. J. Hirsch '07, A. Fox 3L., and A. Tulin 3L. Tulin, however, for the past week has been ill in the Infirmary. It was hoped until the last that he would recover sufficiently to speak this evening, but the doctors have announced that his sickness is more serious than it was believed at first, and that he will not be able to leave his room. W. M. Shohl '06, who had been appointed alternate, will take his place. In the main speeches the order will be : Hirsch...
...with practical human work which supplies a pressing need. The justification of the drama must be found in its power to soften the brutal instincts which lie hidden in every man. Acting today is becoming specialized, and the range of actors is growing smaller. The actors of the past generation were better in Shakespearian roles than modern actors: but today plays are perfectly mounted and the actors excel in showing the problems of every day life. In modern plays there is less outward motion and more exposition of human consciousness, less noise and more feeling. This new field has been...