Word: proof
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale side, and was almost equivalent to a victory for B. A. A., although the ball was very near their goal during the last ten minutes. The game showed the strength the athletic clubs can muster, and the U. of P. game with the Chicago Athletic Club, added proof to this. The Harvard Princeton game was largely attended by Yale men, and naturally, the Yale game at West Point was well attended, all things considered...
...basement will be bathrooms furnished with three shower baths, settubs, etc. There will be no plumbing in any of the rooms, but water will be supplied to the entries on the first and third floors in each section. The building will be absolutely fire-proof, perfectly ventilated, and lighted by gas. Heat will be supplied from the central station, whether by the hot water system or the indirect radiation of steam, is not yet decided. There will also be an open fireplace in each study...
...Museum to Sanders Theatre has given rise to criticism which seems in very large measure to be misdirected. Boston papers have announced in staring headlines that the museum has been "abandoned" and many who have been prejudiced against the building from the outset take this latest step as conclusive proof that it is a failure. That the acoustic properties of the large lecture hall are poor is not here denied, but it may be questioned whether it is necessarily a reflection upon the museum that the number of men who are enrolled in Fine Arts 3 cannot be accommodated there...
...entirely foreign to the spirit of the Prospect Union. It is an association of college students and wage-earners for mutual helpfulness and the benefit derived by the student is not a whit less, if it is not even greater, than that derived by the wage earner. A proof of this is seen in the fact that the very best strength of the University has been freely spent in this service and that the union never finds serious difficulty in providing competent instructors for its classes...
...their wealthy donors; our athletic fields have been gifts to the University; our highest professional chairs have not seldom been established by the liberality of individuals; and the long list of scholarships, which have put the Harvard culture within reach of hundreds of poor students, stands as very living proof of Harvard's indebtedness to the wealthy. True, the wealthy may also have been idlers; but it is not for a Harvard man to cast this up against them, and to condem their successors in the undergraduate body on that account. The class which has so largely contributed to make...