Word: proof
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...result of this new development, therefore, it is most encouraging to see the intermediates give such a good account of themselves in competition with a crew of veteran oarsmen which includes a number of recent 'Varsity men. It is another proof that the system is not merely an attractive theory, but a practical and efficient fact...
...Union gave on the whole too much prominence to the refutation of the arguments of the negative, thus failing to present sufficient proof of the desirability of the proposed change...
...another proof of the glaring partiality in crimson athletics. Instances of it have cropped out many times in the history of sport at that college, particularly on the nine and crew, but of late there has been a strong feeling among the graduates and undergraduates against such treatment, for it is by this means that Harvard invariably puts into the field teams which are by no means representative. This has been the most potent cause of Harvard's failure to keep up her end with the other colleges...
Through a mistake in proof-reading the seventh word in the question for the Harvard-Yale Debate was given in Saturday's CRIMSON as "definitely" instead of "definitively," as it should have been...
...proof sheets of this year's University Catalogue show the following summary: Officers of instruction, 202; students, 2811, a gain of 179 over last year. The university has suffered a serious loss by the death of Professor Theodore G. Wormley, on January 3. Dr. Wormley was a member of the Medical Faculty for twenty years, and was a chemist and toxicologist of great reputation...