Word: prove
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...tried out during the week. Yale, as usual has a good four-oar and the chances are in their favor. The Freshman race looks favorable to Harvard at present, but sickness had caused a change in the Yale crew until very recently, and the regular eight may prove considerably faster...
...York 10 to 0, and in the deciding championship game a victory was scored against Hobart last Friday on Soldiers Field, 3 to 1. A game with the University of Toronto, the Canadian champions, was to have been played yesterday, but it was thought that it would prove too severe a strain on the men after the hard game with Hobart, and the contest was cancelled...
...desirable" to abolish these contests, but gives no definite statement of its policy in the future, preferring to deal with individual schedules rather than with any period as a whole. It accepts the student co-operation most willingly, and will doubtless give the new council every opportunity to prove its worth as a factor in the situation. What promises to be a satisfactory solution seems near at hand--from an undergraduate point of view because there has been no abolition, and because we are ready to co-operate with the Athletic Committee in accepting such reductions as the Committee...
...word about the proposed new council. The undergraduate committee took up its work in all earnestness, because it believed that the students had pledged themselves to make good a promise; and because it wanted to prove that curtailment is not a proper remedy for distraction. It wanted to cut deeper, by dealing with the student activities as a whole, in the creation of a sentiment that can never be legislated into existence. It remains only for the College to accept the plan in the same spirit of co-operation in which it was drawn. We are trying to help...
...evident that the men were dissatisfied and did not work well together, and that the affair had gone too far to be settled peacefully. Mr. Courtney said that while his move may cost Cornell the victory in the Harvard race, it is the only one that could prove wise in the long run. He was not prepared for recent developments and considers them unfortunate, but thinks that he can develop an eight which will win the Poughkeepsie Regatta from the men he has left...