Word: presented
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...clock. This is the first time in the history of the Union that a class dinner has been held in the Living Room. H. B. Barton, chairman of the dinner committee, will be toast-master, and the speakers of the evening will be the present and past presidents of the class, A. G. Cable, L. K. Lunt and F. H. Burr...
College men are very much interested in intercollegiate athletics, which give them an outlet for superfluous energy, that in no event would be expended on studies. Without them the undergraduates would take part in intercollegiate athletics to a certain extent; possibly somewhat more than at present. But this form of amusement could never occupy the spare time of all the students as intercollegiate athletics now do. Instead of watching games in the open air many undergraduates would fritter away their time in card-playing, theatre-going, and in vicious forms of dissipation...
...Freshman pole vault competition, which was to have been held in the Stadium yesterday, was postponed until today at 4 o'clock on account of the weather. The object of this competition is to try to find any latent talent there may be in the Freshman class, because at present there is but one man training for the pole vault who is eligible for the team...
...present commission system of city government dates from the Galveston flood, when that city adopted it in her crisis. In Iowa the city of Des Moines has taken it up, and Newport, with a council of 200 men from her five wards, is a very successful example...
...time when the weather conditions are such as they are fitted for. All of them are essentially winter sports and do not exist at other seasons of the year. Imagine attempting to play basketball in the spring or autumn in a hot gymnasium. Hockey can only exist at the present time when there is ice, and even with a rink, nobody would want to play it in warm weather. These different forms of athletics are to be given up entirely (for to my mind that would be the result of an abolition of intercollegiate athletics) merely because they happen...