Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...present game of football prevents nineteenths of the students of America colleges from participating in it, so that it can be of no physical benefit to then. They cannot undergo a course of training for football that excludes them from all other activities, study included, for a quarter of the whole college year, and they dare not play at all without such training, or they expose themselves to physical danger to the extent of foolhardiness...
...Satisfactions of Life," C. W. Eliot '53; "From a graduate's Window;" The Teachers' Endowment Fund," J. D. Greene '96; "Religious Reform at Harvard," O. B. Roberts '86; "Patrick Andrew Collins;" "The Mock Trial: An Old Prank," N. Holmes '37; "Notable Books," "Emerson Memorial Hall;" "The University: The Autumn Quarter, " R. B. Merriman '96; "Student Life," H. A. Bellows '06; "Athletics;" "The Graduates;" Illustrations...
...present only about one-third of the entire field has been drained and of the remaining two-thirds probably one quarter will be finished this year. The new drainage system will gradually be used in all the undrained parts. No definite date has been set for the completion of the work, but it will probably not he finished for three or four years...
...University cross country team defeated the Institute of Technology team on Saturday, in a run from the Highland Station, in West Roxbury, to the Technology grounds in Brookline. The time was 24 minutes and 50 seconds, over a course four and three-quarter miles long. Beam of Technology, who finished first, broke by eight seconds the record established for this course last year by Lorenz of Technology. In scoring, only the first six men of each team were counted. Each place counted according to its numerical value, the University making 35, points and Technology...
...field. Parker was ruled out here for unnecessary roughness and was replaced by White. After a penalty Sheble punted to Foster on the 35-yard line. Harvard rushed the ball back 30 yards, but Pennsylvania braced and on the third down with four yards to gain Starr tried a quarter-back run. He had a clear field except for Stevenson, who by hard running caught him for a loss of three yards, the ball going to Pennsylvania on downs on Harvard's 45-yard line. As a result of two penalties for holding Harvard was forced back...