Word: proved
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that praise also belonged to the many men like Governor Taft and Jacob Riis, with thousands more of less prominence, who were giving more than money, throwing their whole lives into the solution of the problems of the nation, such as our duty to the Philippines. This ought to prove to us an inspiration for patriotism like theirs...
...School is much in need of better quarters for the Department of Chemistry, the lack of which will prove a serious hindrance to the development of the School...
...question, purely English is open to considerable discussion. Mr. Lehmann in athletic matters is truly one "whom Harvard men can never forget" but in political matters we also have anti-imperialists who do not stop at such expressions as "unutterable criminality." Yet somehow their phrases don't per se prove the government wrong...
About twenty-five men started work for the Junior team last week, but the squad has since been cut down to less than half. Only three vacancies have to be filled and with fair material to pick from, the team should prove at least as effective as it was a year...
...dual games with Yale by a team of not more than a dozen men. In fact, not many more than that number took the trouble to train for the team. Fortunately such a condition of affairs is entirely unknown today. It took only one or two defeats to prove the foolishness of depending upon a small number of particular stars to pull out a set of closely contested games, and the result today is that as early as January a squad of about 200 men begins serious and healthy training for the dual games which are held...