Word: proof
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...untiring efforts of those, responsible for its management. The failure of the present plan to appeal more generally to the University has led some even to suggest the undesirability of maintaining large dining associations at Harvard, a suggestion which none of us will accept without far more conclusive proof than we yet have...
...worked off in organized athletics, though there is no necessity for the "rough, violent, fierce sports commonly thought necessary to the development of martial qualities." The fact that over 1200 Harvard men served honorably in the Civil War, over 160 of them giving up their lives, is ample proof that the "martial spirit" was alive in the Harvard of fifty years...
...latter proved untrustworthy. We would suggest that men offering these excuses be made to produce the persons to whom tickets were given. The latter should then be made to show some adequate reason for having received the tickets from the accused. The names of men unable to snow such proof, or unable to produce corroborating witnesses, should be immediately published. Those thus shown to be guilty of carelessness, but not malicious speculation, should receive a milder punishment say suspension of privileges for a period of two years...
...whole the number is readable, seasonable, and surprisingly varied. Like other numbers and like most of our students' publications, it would be the better for accurate proof-reading...
...days pass by after another defeat by Yale there seems to be little abatement in the discussion of the football situation. Criticism of what has been done in the past and suggestions for the future are without end. They give ample proof that football is not an interest which influences players alone, but one which fires the whole University. Some think that the importance of football is exaggerated, and they have strong arguments with which to back up their ideas. The great weight of opinion, however, seems to bear upon the fact that we are out to win, and that...