Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Year after year Harvard loses decisive points in athletic contests because--for academic reasons--she is not fully represented in the field. Coaching, training-tables, intensive practice, often prove futile because her best material is "on pro." No sport this winter,--from swimming to track, has been free from this evil...
...Since this objection is not raised against holding the Class Day exercises in the Stadium. I do not see that it can be held as an insuperable objection to holding the Commencement exercises there. In fact, it would appear that the success of one set of exercises there would prove that the other could be made a success there...
...desirability of compulsory chapel. But of those who each year recorded their vote for the supremacy of Phi Beta Kappa, how many, when confronted with the choice between curriculum and extra-curriculum earlier in their college careers, actually chose the former? It isn't necessary to quote statistics to prove the answer...
...usual, a powerful team, better as a team probably than were the Yale yearlings, but they undoubtedly have no man who can measure up to the calibre of O'Hearn's individual work. Captain Hodder at left center and Harris at left wing, however, are men who will prove dangerous at any time...
...official capacity, and hence cannot by any chance be court martialed. Indeed, it is very doubtful if the Admiral will suffer from this denunciation in any way. A great man is never without enemies; and the concerted efforts of the Irish sympathizers to belittle Admiral Sims only prove the more conclusively the true greatness...