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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Thus far the candidates have been allowed to play more or less as they were previously taught although much time has been spent in striving for some sort of team work. The chief drawback in the play has been lack of heavy material, high tackling and fumbling. Beginning with today each man will receive individual coaching from experienced players. The department of kicking will be given especial attention. It has not yet been decided who will be picked for this work since no man has shown any special skill in that direction. The next game scheduled is with Exeter...
...those who wish to engage in religious and philanthropic work a large number of opportunities is offered. A library and reading-room for school children is to be established by the Association in a district in East Cambridge where the call for work of this sort is extremely urgent. It is hoped that this library may be made the starting point for the establishment of several boys' clubs and similar enterprises. At the start, however, only about six men will be needed to give two hours a week each to the work. A Chinese Sunday-School in Boston, to which...
...very readable plea for a higher form of teaching, to be provided by the future occupant of the recently founded Dorman B. Eaton Professorship of Government. The writer points out that the terms of Mr. Eaton's bequest provide not merely for a new chair, but for a new sort of chair. The broader, less academic, more human teaching that Mr. Eaton hoped for will be an innovation, and if the right man be found, will be a great step in advance. The other special articles are sufficiently explained by their titles,--"The Harvard Meleager," by R. Norton...
Cornell will soon have a boat club similar to the Newell or the Weld if the present plans are carried out successfully. The university formerly had clubs of this sort before the organization of the Cornell Navy, and the men most interested in Cornell rowing are behind this recent movement. The two Harvard clubs have been consulted and the plan is meeting with great enthusiasm...
Experiments have for some-time been in progress at the University Museum to discover a better sort of tablet than is now used upon which the glass models of flowers may rest with safety. The results have been satisfactory. The new tablets are made of a white material which will not warp under any conditions. The surface is absolutely smooth and may be made to take any color: white, however, will probably be used entirely. The chief value of this invention lies in the fact that where flowers were formerly subject to serious damage by the warping of the cardboard...