Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard football player declared after the Princeton game that the greatest thrill he ever experienced was when the team was cheered at the Princeton locker building for its 3 to 0 victory. This is proof to every Harvard man that his spirit will tell in the Yale game. Every vestige of over-confidence has been wiped out of the College during the last two weeks. Harvard is now going to show her spirit in a mass meeting and parade. The thought that the Stadium has never seen Yale defeated has galled us long enough. It is time that the prophecy...
This wonderful library was bequeathed to Harvard, however, on the condition that it should be housed in a fire-proof building. With Gore Hall hopelessly inadequate, it seemed for a time as though the acceptance of the gift must be indefinitely postponed. But Mrs. Widener early in the summer notified President Lowell that she would be glad to furnish a building for it; and later, when she realized the crying insufficiency of library accommodations at Cambridge, offered to provide for a building large enough to accommodate the entire University library and allow room for growth...
...sport." It is hard to conceive in what way the "practical value" has declined during the past years, as duelling went out of style long ago. The fact that at both West Point and Annapolis fencing is required as part of the curriculum ought to be sufficient proof that our government still considers it practical enough. Moreover, fencing as an official sport is increasing not only among colleges, but among preparatory schools as well. Both Exeter and Groton started the sport during the last year...
...this is the business of Mr. Dunbar and Mr. Chubb. How far a field the reviewer has been let gives some idea of the interest of these essays. They will lead to many more discussions-a proof of the success of the essay contest, which is, incidentally, one promising method of fostering intellectual activity...
...cause no serious problem, except in colleges where large dormitory space is lacking. Besides dormitories, Harvard is equipped with the Union which offers every opportunity to working students to drop now and then into congenial company. With professor Cavanaugh we ridicule the idea of a great social barrier; the proof of its non-existence is everywhere at hand. And so we believe that the social life of the working students at Harvard need not suffer to an alarming degree...