Word: strength
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Saturday's play in the duplicate whist contest Harvard make a net gain of 17 -- 12 in the afternoon and five in the evening. Harvard played a straight long suit game and Yale played an irregular lead, showing strength in trumps. The total tricks were: Harvard 47, Yale 30. Harvard now holds a record of six victories during the last six years. The players were: Harvard--A. J. Halle 2L., E. D. Fullerton 2L., H. H. Fox '00, A. R. Campbell 1L., M. Hyman 1L., M. G. Beaman 1L., E. S. Foster '01, and N. S. Kelly 2L. Yale...
...promotion is an immense item. The amount which goes into the pockets of promoters and bankers for floating the organization varies from 20 to 60 per cent. of the total capital invested. Capitalists say, however, that such remuneration is not excessive, for men with reputation for business capacity and strength of character, well enough established to be entrusted with the formation of such gigantic corporations, are very few and the promoters of these concerns run enormous risks, for which they should be compensated...
Nothing definite in regard to the strength of the outfield can be determined until out-door work is started. The battery candidates have not been reduced as yet, but are working daily with the University batteries. They give signs of unusual promise and are undoubtedly the strongest part of the team...
...Strength tests for the intercollegiate competition are now being held in the Gymnasium, and will continue until about the middle of April. The list of the fifty strongest men in each competing university is to be made out by May 1, and the university having the highest fifty records wins the championship...
...loyalty to the University showed itself preeminently in his willingness to serve as Dean, first of the College, and then of the Faculty of Arts and Science, and as chairman of important committees. Though in private he expressed regret that administrative duties took so much time and strength from his work as professor, he gave himself to them devotedly, and brought to them the same thoroughness, soundness of judgment, and disinterestedness that distinguished his instruction and his writings. In the conduct of administrative business he was ready to assume responsibility; in this way, and by the careful preparation...