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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University basketball team will play Princeton this evening at 8 o'clock in the Gymnasium in the fourth game of its schedule. The Princeton team this year contains four members of last year's team and although defeated by Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, has shown steady progress and has defeated Fordham and Brown. Captain Halliday and Ryan are considered two of the strongest players in the intercollegiate league. The team has been practicing longer than Harvard and the team-work is more developed...
...offer the strongest inspirations of our academic life are those to whom America must look for the advancement of its scholarship. But we think that both the Nation and Mr. Wister, in urging their point, have neglected the position of the undergraduate. Their ideal is that of progress in unexplored regions of literature, art and science. Ours is the development of "second-string" men, who, while profiting themselves by the words of eminent authorities, will pave the way for a gradual improvement in real scholarship. To our undeveloped minds this ideal seems nobler than devotion to original research, and until...
...work of the Freshmen last night was very poor, the practice being characterized by rough individual playing. The progress of the team is retarded by lack of material, and by the failure of the men to report regularly for practice...
...license, it becomes an avalanche and temporarily overwhelms its oppressors. Like an avalanche, however, it possesses no constructive power and when the old forces that for the time being have become subterranean, force their way again to the surface, the process is repeated. It is true that there is progress but it is not so rapid as we should have reason to expect...
...variety of public utilities such as water supply; it is the proposed extension of the principle upon a scale of portentous magnitude that gives the issue its engrossing interest. The proposition is in itself characteristic of the age, for whether it be regarded as a real factor in the progress of civilization or only the mistaken dream of impracticable visionaries, it is entitled to the credit of a gentle birth. It is one of the phenomena of the groping fraternalism that has so markedly characterized the civilization of the last half century. This question cannot be arbitrarily dismissed...