Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dartmouth track team, 41 strong, arrives in town tonight with high hopes for victory in the Stadium tomorrow. Only once, in 1911, has Harvard bowed to the Indian track and field men, but this year the visitors seem unusually strong for a dual meet. Coach Farrell is not up to his usual optimism as he hears tales from Hanover of 6 foot high-jumpers, 49 second quarter-milers, and 45 foot shot-putters...
Yesterday's CRIMSON carried an editorial entitled "Dark Day" and concerning the "drab record" of this year's Debating Council. The facts and interpretations in the article seem sufficiently erronious to warrant a correction...
...have already mentioned that the Harvard Council does not approve of decision debating, and it would seem that this alone is sufficient reason for dropping out of the League, in as much as the very existence of this association implies that judging and decisions are of major importance. On top of this, however, appears the financial problem. It costs approximately $75 to send a team to Philadelphia. The League schedule provides for three trips away from Cambridge and the entertainment of three visiting teams in Cambridge. The League chooses the questions. These debates have not proved popular in Cambridge...
Despite the optimistic view taken by those in command of Harvard debating, an analysis of the past forensic season would not seem to justify such an adjective as "healthy". While debating officials paint a radiant future for Harvard debating, the drab record of this year fore-shadows no such promise. On the contrary, the evidence on this season's calendar points in a series of incidents which reflect little credit upon an activity so rich in tradition as Harvard debating has been...
This record of the Debating Council leaves but one impression. The management of Harvard debating does not seem to be efficiently administrating an activity whose limited nature would tend to expedite its direction...