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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feature of the practice was the appearance of several of the men wearing a new style headgear, which is intended to give fuller protection to the forehead and the back of the neck. Once ensconced in this type of headgear, only a small part of the player's face is visible and open to injury. It is the intention of the coaches to have the entire team equipped with this style of head armament...
...these is the Fogg Art Museum, which has just announced a special exhibit of famous paintings. A census of the students who will visit the Museum to see this collection, or, indeed who will visit it to see any collection, would undoubtedly bring out the fact that a pitifully small number of men are availing themselves of an opportunity which is at their very door. If there is a Harvard indifference, this is it, and in its worst form. Perhaps a better word for it is thoughtlessness...
...arguments often advanced in favor of the large university, is that it offers to its members opportunities for a wider field of study than is possible in a small college. Of these advantages, none are more important than the courses given by the various exchange professors from foreign universities. The exchange professor this year from the Sorbonne is Professor Lichtenberger. He gives two courses in French; one on "Renan and Contemporary Intellectual Nihilism," another on "Nietzsche." Despite the interest of two such subjects, the enrollment has been pitifully small. The only excuse for this can be lack of information about...
...thoroughly investigate the great archaeological "find". The centuries-old villages lie buried in a narrow Nebraskan valley between two high bluffs, twenty-five miles below Omaha, near the Missouri River. The cities have been buried under the earth washed down from the neighboring hills, but in recent years a small stream has cut its way through the deposits of hundreds of years and has brought to light again the remains of the old towns far below the present surface of the valley. Reading the history of these ancient deposits from the steep sides of the ravine, the scientists have figured...
...themselves. Nowhere is this more true than in the field of the literary publications. It is, therefore, with great satisfaction that the CRIMSON learns of the early abandonment of an enterprise recently considered by the members of one of the dormitories for the publication at frequent intervals of a small paper devoted exclusively to Freshman news and other subjects primarily of Freshman interest. Such an attempt would have been a mistake both from the point of view of those undertaking it and from that of the class as a whole, as being, just to that degree in which...