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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Religious Union held its first meeting of the year in Phillips Brooks House last evening. Professor F. G. Peabody made a short address giving a general history of the union and describing its aims. It is the direct descendant, spiritually at least, of a small society for religious inquiry established at Harvard soon after the Revolution. Although a body for religious inquiry, the union is by no means an organization for philosophic discussion. It aims to help men in the solution of religious problems without any previous examination of their religious affiliations...
Harvard was never behind in the score, and most of the time was ahead, but the lead, when it existed, was so perilously small that the game was never considered won until the last touchdown gave a sufficiently commanding advantage. The Pennsylvania team was trained to the hour and never let slip an opportunity to gain an advantage. Through speed and alertness, they twice secured the ball on fumbles near Harvard's goal line, and by swift, determined attack forced through the Harvard line for the two touchdowns that gave them their 10 points...
...merry and everything has a right to seem somewhat novel and absurd. Let us hope the class of 1905, after furnishing the Lampoon with a lawful but will furnish it with a Howarth or two and one or two Herricks, to catch the momentary sparkle of our small world...
...needed to show that here is an absence of all sense of proportion, and that exhortations based on this creed can never express the spirit of amateur sport. They plainly will and do express, however, that spirit which we once laughed at as the "high school spirit" or the "small college spirit;" and they lead to a mug-hunting which, though long since despised in individuals, you are now helping to make fashionable if prosecuted by the University as a whole...
Individually the men on the first Weld are good oars, but owing to the small number of times they have rowed together the crew as a whole is not up to the standard of the first crew of last year. The blade work is fairly good, but the men do not seem to get any drive to their strokes. In addition to these faults the recovery is too slow and there is a tendency to rush the slides...