Word: proves
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Whether last evening's vote of the Faculty is wise or not is to be seen in future years; whether they have really acted towards the prosperity of our beloved college remains yet to be proved. For the present at least the deed is done, and as we think, perhaps, one of our most manly sports has been torn from us. But are we actually in a position to question the wisdom of this action? Stop a moment and think; do we, as undergraduates only in this college, consider that we can judge, with that judgment that comes from experience...
...Epicoene or The Silent Woman" will be given in Sanders Theatre this afternoon at 2 o'clock and this evening at 8. Nearly all of the arrangements for the production of the play have been completed. The scenery is a very elaborate imitation of the old model, and will prove a most interesting feature of the play. The fops and gallants and other supernumeraries have been carefully drilled in their part of the performance and will add greatly to the realism of the reproduction...
...drill yesterday each member of the Rifles was provided with a list of "Exercises for Competitive Drill," which will prove of much value in private practice...
...public statement with regard to the Fogg Art Museum which appeared in the Graduates' Magazine, two members of the Corporation suggest that it will probably not prove desirable to transfer Harvard's valuable collections of engravings from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to the newly erected one here. For this, two reasons are assigned: first, that the engravings are of most use where they are now; and second, that their accommodation in the Fogg Museum would necessitate the sacrifice of too much of the very limited space at disposal in that building. The strength of the first argument might...
...Youngman '95 then answered for the negative and dealt some heavy blows at the comparisons of the Union speakers. He argued that the change would prove beneficial from the fact that it would separate national and state interests at elections. He said the affirmative had not proved that legislatures were purer and better than the people...