Word: shorts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University basketball team has recently finished one of the most discouraging seasons ever experienced by any Harvard athletic organization. Handicapped at the start by a small squad and a short schedule, the members of the team did the best they knew how, but were defeated in seven of the eight games played. Their competitors came from places where basketball is rated more highly than at Cambridge, as a consequence of which the games were usually one-sided. When they played in the Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard men turned out in very small numbers and the team undoubtedly felt that to many...
Professor Swain began by giving a short history of engineering. He said that since early times engineering has been in use to supply men with water, food, and habitation. The Egyptians and Babylonians constructed great works, but in many instances wasted their efforts. During the Middle Ages with the decadence of civilization, engineering declined, only to take on new life in the sixteenth century. The need of the civil engineer became greater with construction of roads, bridges, docks, and harbors. The many inventions of the early nineteenth century gave added impulse to the profession, and engineers began to be differentiated...
Under the terms of agreement between the Corporation and the two associations, the operation of that agreement can be altered or suspended on one month's notice; but in order to facilitate the work of the committee in the short time that remains this year, the directors of both associations have unanimously voted to waive the month's notice. The responsibility for both halls has thus passed into the hands of the above mentioned committee. The committee will at once consider the problem of improving the efficiency of both halls, the quality of food, and the service. After informing themselves...
...Rowley '09, J. W. Simons '09, P. S. Twitchell '11, J. M. Taylor '11, J. C. Wilby '10. This squad will continue to practice at 2.30 o'clock. The battery squad has not been reduced as yet, except that all but four of the 1912 candidates were a short time ago sent down to the Freshman squad...
Professor F. N. Robinson '91 will give a short talk in the Treasure Room of the Library this evening at 7.30 o'clock on "Chaucer, his Sources and his Contemporaries," in connection with an exhibition of books by or about Chaucer. The collection of books will be on view to members of the University this evening from 7 to 9.30 o'clock, and tomorrow from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. Persons not connected with the University will be welcome in the afternoon if they will apply for cards at the desk in the Delivery Room. Professor Robinson will...