Word: record
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Freshmen are reminded that now is their chance to help along one of the greatest undergraduate movements that the College has known. Every man will be visited by a collector; after that it is up to him to help his class break the record established by 1916 last year. The Gymnasium is practically assured; hasten its erection by your support. GYMNASIUM COMMITTEE...
...Hall is the only regulation which will be insisted on and even this may be suspended in exceptional cases. The result of this rule is expected to be that men will take most of their meals in the Hall, though it is the present intention to keep no record of their presence or absence. The board will be similar to that now furnished at Memorial Hall, and will cost approximately $5 a week. There will be no fixed places at table, and thus men will be unrestricted in their search for congenial companions...
...Winthrop Ames '95, for the first time since he sent the New Theatre Company to Boston three years ago, will present one of his latest productions, "The Great Adventure," at the Majestic Theatre tonight. Mr. Ames has made an enviable record as an original theatrical producer since he left College...
Until several years ago, the celebration of John Harvard's birth was not on a fixed date. No record of the date has ever been discovered by historians, but the following entry is found in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark: "1607, November 29, John Harvye, S. of Robt. a Butcher." According to the custom of the church at this time, it has been assumed that he was not baptized on the day of his birth but three days later. Accordingly, at the time of the 300th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard, the date...
...able to solve. If they cannot explain results that have been, surely they cannot predict what results will be. "The odds are on Harvard," say some with a finality that spells a Crimson victory. But who ever heard of odds on Yale, reasonable or unreasonable? "Harvard has a better record," say others, forgetting that games are not won on records. Harvard tried the record policy in 1910 and Yale in 1911, and neither won. "Yale has the old Yale spirit," say still others, who do not know that there is a Harvard spirit of less fame but no less power...