Word: question
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...reply to your request for an expression of opinion on the subject of applause at games, let me say that my answer to the question whether to cheer or not to cheer would be in the affirmative. The difficulty in the matter seems to me to be not so much with reference to the existence of applause, as to the kind of applause and its application. The elaborate system of cheering which is now carried to its logical conclusion by the complete division of the rival camps of spectators into consecutive or continuous vocal bands, is only one illustration...
...difficult to say, but I do not think that any team with the proper spirit and properly trained would ever care as to how the spectators were treating them while they were on the field. Before the contest begins and during the time of preparation it is perhaps another question. Then any manifestation of enthusiasm can be appreciated and will help to inspire the men. As to the regular cheering at the actual final contest I am of the opinion it is of little value; because in the first place, practically it is not heard and in the second because...
...half courses on the expansion of Europe since 1815. History 27 will be made a full course, the subject being European History in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Dr. Merriman's other courses, History 11 and 29, will be omitted, and Professor Coolidge's course on the Eastern Question will not be given during 1904-05. Professor Channing will give two half courses, on Early American History, and The Administration of Thomas Jefferson. Courses 10b and 22 will be dropped, and Mr. Johnston will give a new course, on the history of modern Italy...
Within the lifetime of some of us science has changed the aspect of the world. It is a question whether science makes the individual more or less hopeful or immortality. Alone, science may be said to lessen the belief of the individual in a future life. An immense majority of men live without any idea of immortality, a large group regard the hereafter as one of man's inventions, while a third, and much smaller class, lay hold of the life hereafter as a governing influence in this...
Next Monday and Tuesday the nine-teen the annual conference of the president of the Christian associations of the eastern colleges will be held at Buffalo, New York. The purpose of the conference is to study and compare moral and religious question and opportunities of the colleges represented. The delegates from the Harvard Christian Association will be: G. E. Huggins '01, R. S. Wallace '04, R. H. Oveson '05, K. C. MacArthur '05, and R. D. Shipman '05. The following graduates, besides others, will be present: S. Bell '96, E. C. Carter '00, C. W. Gilkey...