Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale game a sufficient proof of the failure of the present inter-dormitory football system? I am very much inclined to doubt it. Since the loss of training in team-play is represented as the chief obstacle, Andover's record of two victories and two defeats under a somewhat similar system would seem to be quite inconclusive evidence. On the other hand, it may be said that at other schools very marked success has attended the introduction of the interdormitory plan...
...Illustrated fell just short of complete respectability. It is a hard judgment; but the scorn of the established literary institution for the yellow upstart is proverbial. The United States is said to be daily gaining in military strength by the European adoption of the Kilkenny Cat policy. By a similar path the Illustrated has emerged into the front ranks of the University's "best." It is to be both expected and highly desired that the Illustrated will do an ever increasing share of the representing of Harvard to the outside world...
...basis of a competitive written examination, although other evidence of ability and attainments on the part of candidates will be taken into consideration. The Fellowship is open to Bachelors of Arts of universities and colleges in the United States and Canada, and to other American students of similar attainments; all candidates being expected to have such a knowledge of Greek, (including Hellenic Greek), Latin, French, and German as will enable them to make effective use of books written in those languages. The examination will also include a majority of the following subjects: Billical Hebrew, the history, archaeology, and geography...
...accordance with its annual custom, and in view of the success of the festival held on Thanksgiving Day, Phillips Brooks House will hold a similar entertainment on Christmas evening. It will be open to all men who remain in Cambridge during the holidays, and on Christmas night various entertainers will sing and read to those present, and refreshments will be served...
...Civic Service Committee distributed special ballots among voters at the Senior polls on Wednesday in order to ascertain the forms of community service in which each man will be interested after graduation. The object is to utilize the training acquired in work such as Phillips Brooks House offers in similar service after graduation. 169 men indicated preferences for one or more of the twenty different kinds of work which were listed on the ballot, and for one of three religious denominations. In many cases four or five different branches of work appealed to the same man. Of these...