Word: presents
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Ninety acceptances of the invitations sent out have been received, and this year, departing from the custom of former years, thirty-five prominent undergraduates have been invited. Among those attending will be the present board, former editors of the paper or its predecessors the Magenta and the Herald, and several members of the Faculty, together with the invited speakers...
...scattered in different parts of the book stack. The primary purpose of the room is to provide a suitable place in which these books may be used. It may be entered either from the reading room or from the fourth floor of the stack, and an attendant will be present during the hours the room is open...
...order to give the undergraduates a chance to present their case, the Athletic Committee voted last night to postpone action on the pending vote until a later meeting...
...concern to the Faculty that the standard of scholarship in the University has not improved in recent years, and we are in entire sympathy with any measures that will have the effect of permanently bettering the standard of scholarship. We also realize that in intercollegiate athletics as conducted at present there are certain elements detrimental to scholastic interests. The most important of these is the feeling among the undergraduates that athletics take precedence over studies; which manifests itself in cutting lectures on the days of important contests, in the distraction from studies previous to these, and in wholesale vacations after...
...however, convinced that the present proposal does not meet the situation, because without some form of intercollegiate athletics to interest the undergraduates, the latter would look for other outside interests, which, we believe, would be far worse than the evils caused by intercollegiate contests. But we believe that any permanent remedy lies rather in the direction of a development of a public opinion among the undergraduates which will discountenance the evils and make them impossible...