Word: small
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...team plays Cornell in the Arena tonight. The teams are well matched and the close contest expected should bring out a larger representation from the University than has been present at the opening games on the schedule. The number of students at the games this season has been discouragingly small, not more than 100 undergraduates having witnessed any one of the contests played thus far. The sport is deserving of greater support than is being given...
Even more significant, however, was the plan adopted in three cities, of opening the balconies to high school students for a small price. At the concerts in St. Paul and Chicago over 500 members of local preparatory schools heard the concert by the Musical Clubs. Among these boys who are just making their choice of a college, the University was advertised legitimately and effectively. This feature of the trip will probably bring many new students from the Middle West, and will do much to bring Harvard into closer touch with the more distant schools...
That rowing is one of the most expensive sports and at the same time one which brings in small receipts is evidenced by the report of the graduate dirrector of the Columbia University rowing assocation. He states that over $2700 is still owed by that university toward the payment of expenses incurred during last spring's successful season, and asks the student body to come to the aid of the athletic association in the payment of the debt, in order to assure the continuance or rowing as an organized sport...
...meeting was held recently at which fourteen members of the University, all graduates of Knox College, assembled to talk over the relations between Eastern and Western institutions of learning. President McClelland of Knox was present. Knox is one of the small Western colleges with which Harvard exchanges, and its proportionately large representation in the graduate departments of the University is undoubtedly due in no small measure to this fact...
...call has ben sent out for more men in winter track. Now is the time when next season's victory or defeat will be decided. Remember this, when deciding whether to put so small a share of time on so worthy a cause...