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...Watson and Mr. Mumford; on the contrary, they are acting in entire accord. Professor Beale, chairman of the Athletic Committee, stated emphatically yesterday that Mr. Watson has not resigned the charge of our rowing interests. It is the design of the committee that a continuous policy in rowing should prevail here; with that intention Mr. Watson was invited to take charge and the committee heartily supports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'VARSITY CREW COACH. | 5/7/1896 | See Source »

...trump may be turned for each hand, or the same trump may be used throughout the entire match, at the option of the players; the latter method to prevail in case of a division of opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Duplicate Whist Tournament. | 2/3/1896 | See Source »

...fond of baseball, or football, or rowing, as the case might be, and were always responded to accordingly, there would not only be a large amount of material from which our teams could be selected, but a better, more united spirit and much more lively interest would prevail during each season's training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/4/1896 | See Source »

...officers to be undertaken with the greatest care. It would be most unfortunate if in any of the contingencies which occur in an election of so much importance, the best judgment of the class as to the fitness of the men to be chosen should not in every case prevail. We urge upon every member of the senior class to do all that he honestly can to this end. And, first of all, he should let nothing prevent his being present at the meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/13/1895 | See Source »

...earnest, strenuous life in the college, the goal of which is attainment to educational ideals, in the very broadest sense in which these can be understood. It is this undercurrent which really determines the value of the undergraduate life and is significant of the tendencies in it which shall prevail. In its superficial aspects the life of the Harvard student is deceiving: those who would form a fair estimate of it must look below the surface...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/25/1895 | See Source »

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