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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this feeling, for they tend to prevent many men from playing basketball; but even so it is hard to understand why there are only 20 candidates for the team out of about 1450 men eligible to play. With such a small squad to begin with, and with a schedule shorter than most of the other teams have, it is no wonder that a majority of the games are lost, some of them to colleges half the size of Harvard. The under-graduates must not forget that in many places basketball ranks as one of the major sports, and our opponents...
...will also be given to the president to study educational and industrial conditions in large sections of the country. The trip is to occupy about two months, and President Eliot expects to return to Cambridge on April 3. It will be remembered that last year President Eliot made a shorter tour of the western Harvard Clubs, occupying the month of April...
...game with the Naval Academy at Annapolis has taken the place of the game at West Point, formerly of annual occurrence. The athletic relations with the Naval Academy have been in no way strained, but the football committee has decided to play the Army team again, as involving a shorter trip than that to Annapolis, and keeping the players away from Cambridge for a shorter time...
...subject very generally neglected in such things, the change should be most acceptable. The formal debate of today is undoubtedly of great value to the participant, but it is not interesting to the average man. It is too technical, and redundant. The proposed contest will be considerably shorter, more varied, and more comprehensible. The emphasis on the literary quality, the power to please and persuade an audience, should bring out that phase in which our debating is weakest. Altogether, the new arrangements are to the advantage of all parties, and it is to be expected that the Pasteur Medal will...
...planning to be present. Sufficient tents, furnished and holding four men each, have been engaged for the Harvard delegation, so that there may be a united Harvard camp. The expenses, including a program fee of five dollars, amount to about $20 for the full time; for a shorter time they will be correspondingly less. For those men who do not remain full time, the program fee is 60 cents a day. Special trains will leave Boston on June 26, and a special train will run from New London on June 25, directly after the crew races. The hours for starting...