Word: proved
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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What a man gets out of living in a College dormitory cannot be measured in dollars and cents. If the Corporation intends to give the best to the students it should give them more and better College dormitories even if it should prove a poor financial investment. As I said at the beginning it does not seem right for the President and Fellows to look at the question of Yard dormitories in such a coldly financial spirit...
...CRIMSON. They tell pretty much the old story, and popular feeling just now is clearly the other way; but the President addresses himself primarily, not to undergraduates, or to the public, but to the college authorities of the country; and with them his clear, vigorous arguments are likely to prove effective...
...sport because it is rough. Rowing, baseball, lacrosse, track and field games, hockey, football, are all of them good. Moreover, it is to my mind simple nonsense, a mere confession of weakness, to desire to abolish a game because tendencies show themselves, or practices grow up, which prove that the game ought to be reformed. Take football for instance. The preparatory schools are able to keep football clean and to develop the right spirit in the players without the slightest necessity ever arising to so much as consider the question of abolishing it. There is no excuse whatever for colleges...
...things than your fellows who have not had your advantages. If it has served merely to make you believe that you are to be excused from effort in after life, that you are to be excused from contact with the actual world of men and events, then it will prove a curse and not a blessing...
...Biglow, 3d, '08, right tackle, does not seem to be quite up to his last year's form. Although such is the case, he should prove to be one of the best tackles of the year...