Word: season
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Here are facts. The Harvard swimming team has no tank to practise in, and no material but those men who will sacrifice a whole season of football or baseball for 2 or 3 swimming events, where time by the most approved stop-watches never exceeds four minutes, yet is by common consent of the legislators pronounced an extravagant mis-appropriation of time, energy, and gray matter. Lest such wholesale absorption of athletics be increased they have made the two-season rule...
This is my point--the vast and varied absurdities of the two-season rule, as now maintained. When this law was first made, it was tagged with the statement that it was reasonable because it would affect so few. As a matter of fact it affected a great many. Probation itself became blunted and worm-eaten by this idiotic rule. Does a man who has made a successful record in the fall in both sports and studies find himself better off than his neighbor who has competed to the detriment of his courses? Not a whit. Doesn't it seem...
...meeting for all men in the University interested in acting or writing plays. From among these the more actively concerned will be chosen, officers for the coming year will be elected, a series of informal meetings arranged to discuss plans, and, in general, a working organization formed for the season of 1908-09. The burden of next year's activities will naturally fall upon the present Junior class; it is hoped, then, especially, that all Juniors interested in the club will ally themselves with it as soon as possible. Arrangements will be made for a play competition to extend over...
Practice for the University and class shooting teams will begin this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock at the traps on Soldiers Field. From now on the grounds will be open for practice every Wednesday and Friday during the season...
...fifth symphony concert of the season will be given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. The following program will be rendered: Haydn, Symphony in G major, No. 6; Schumann, Concerto for Pianoforte in A minor; Rimsky-Korsakoff, Caprice on Spanish Themes, op. 34. Mme. Olga Samaroff will be the soloist...