Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Owing to the mild winter, there has been little good ice this season, and for the reason on many days of the practice season the Harvard team has not been able to use the rink. The men have nevertheless developed in a steady and satisfactory manner, and the team is now stronger than the one which played Yale last year. As individuals, the men are fast skaters, and have worked hard to perfect themselves in the details of their positions. As a team, they are capable of a hard defence, and a fast, though not always concerted attack...
...distinctly declined. What is desirable, is, that the proportion of person entering between 17 and 19 should largely increase. Three-eighths of the Freshmen admitted in 1900 were 19 years of age, or more. There is no good reason why nine-tenths of all the boys who mean to go to Harvard College should not be fully prepared for admission at eighteen years...
...very likely resulted in a disappointment to the little clique of one secret society, (whose organ the CRIMSON seems to be) but how this can be constructed as injuring the University and considering purse-strings in tead of the interests of the University, and be made the reason for crying "shame," the CRIMSON does not explain. The man referred to was honored by the senior class, not with an election to the place he was so graciously bracketed for by the little clique, which result would have been a sufficient disappointment to them, but he was elected to a higher...
...spite of the present unusual prosperity of the United States there are two great dangers which threaten its welfare. One of these dangers is discontent. Education carries with it powerful advantages, but it has this one disadvantage of promoting discontent. Yet this is not without reason for by education we create a condition of want; the thing that differentiates mankind is want; and there is no civilization without want. We must face our own problem then and deal with it accordingly. There is no sudden way to stop this condition, but there is a way for men to alleviate...
...decline in the animal products quoted. Mr. Wright then showed his own tables which give the increase in the purchasing power of gold and the decrease in that of silver. But in reality the increase in the laborer's gross earnings has been to a great extent curtailed by reason of the expenses resulting from the improvements in his condition. On the other hand, the improvement in the condition of the laborer is largely due to the benefits he receives as a consumer from the cheapening of production. This great bettering of the condition of the laborer is only...