Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...question to attempt "campaigns"or "booms" for other equipment. Nobody appreciates more than ourselves the absurdity of Harvard's mediaeval gymnasium. But until an adequate library and sanitary laboratories for chemical students are obtained, we must be content with the excellent outdoor athletic facilities we now possess...
...inform their parents that they cannot witness the final exercises defeat the very object for which most parents come to Cambridge at the end of the academic year; namely, to see their sons honorably discharged and the diploma received. It is true that the actual sheep-skin may not possess the intrinsic value of past years but the final ceremonies attached to graduation are naturally of the greatest interest to a man's parents. To bar them, as is now necessarily the case at Sanders Theatre, seems to us a defect in management which can be corrected...
Although the report does show a decidly unfavorable condition in dollars and cents, we realize that the present management has had great difficulties with which to cope. We believe that we now possess a system of athletics for the many, of which everyone must approve. To establish a policy of rigid economy in all its departments should be the continual aim of the Athletic Association...
...other than unfamiliarity with the grounds tend to put a high premium on steadiness, the Harvard nine played championship baseball to the end. Of the coolness which the team developed despite every inducement to the opposite, too much praise cannot be given. Throughout the game the men seemed to possess that exact balance between confidence and anxiety so difficult to acquire and equally difficult to maintain. In short, the Harvard team proved equal to the occasion...
...addition, the publication of marks would provide what we do not possess at present: a true record of our best effort in that business in which we are for four years supposedly most seriously engaged...