Word: proof
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...report of the work which Phillips Brooks House carried on this fall, up to December 1, is a significant proof of the good that this institution accomplishes in the wide scope of activities, University and charitable, in which it is interested...
...team showed surprisingly good form for early season work in defeating Maine by a score of 20 to 0. Le Gore, last year's freshman, who, with the veterans Ainsworth, Knowles and Wilson, formed the backfield, played a remarkable game, giving ample proof of his ability in line-plunging, open field running and passing. Forward and lateral passes were largely instrumental in the success of the attack and Maine did not seriously bother the Yale line...
...building will, of course, be a modern, fire-proof construction, with self-closing doors, stand-pipes and a fire alarm system. Complete ventilating and electrical interconnecting systems will be installed in the new building, and, as far as possible, in those parts of the older building not so equipped. The architects are McKim, Mead and White, who have previously designed the club-house in its successive stages of development, this being the third extensive addition
...university. The causes for this condition are perhaps due, in some degree at least, to inherent differences in the two classes of students. On the other hand, that there is in American universities an ever increasing interest in contemporary affairs the large number of sporadic political clubs supply bundant proof. The failure of these undertakings to play a larger part than they do in the life of the University is in large measure a result of their very numbers, of the loss of energy through its diffusion into too large a number of channels, in the failure to concentrate...
Work has been continued on the rebuilding of the Gray Herbarium in fire-proof materials. Much of the central part of the building has already been remodeled, and the contract for the remaining work has recently been let. In the near future the whole structure will be fire-proof according to the most modern standards...