Word: proving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Crimson and Eli Phi Beta Kappa men will seek to extend their honors to the diamond today when the honor societies of the two universities meet at Now Haven at 10 o'clock this morning. A victory by the locals will prove the lack of necessity of the compulsory athletic program to be instituted at Cambridge next year. A fortnight of successful work-outs have made the University honor men the favorites over the line representing Yale...
...duty of the Senior to make the incoming man feel that he has a friend in the University with whom he can talk over the perplexing incidents of the new life to which he is becoming accustomed. The experience of the upperclassman is sure to prove invaluable in gulling the uninitiated toward a wise course in studies and other college activities...
...considering the future of Harvard to remember that this large group of influential leaders in the life of many cities is meeting simply and solely to discuss matters which centre around the University. Surely no conceivable material harm can possibly overtake an institution which possesses such support. Undergraduates can prove that they deserve that support only by keepting alive in Cambridge that greatness of spirit which has always distinguished Harvard institutions and which is theirs to pass...
...years, when the wind whistles through mackinaws and woolen hockey tights no one will deny. But at the same time much real studying can be done on even the hottest of days. One had only to step into the coolest spot in Cambridge,-- Widener Reading Room,--yesterday to prove that this quite staggeringly hopeful fact is true...
...plan which the Faculty has announced very wisely endeavors to obtain the desired result by a minimum of compulsion and a maximum of willing co-operation. The use of sports as a medium of exercise lends much attractiveness to what otherwise might prove an irksome task. The three hours of physical training required each week will not be a mere burden to Freshmen, but will amply repay them both mentally and physically. This fact the Freshmen should recognize, to the exclusion of the idea that it is "compulsory." In short, when finally approved by the Board of Governors, the introduction...