Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish to join with "Several Seniors" in approving the suggestion that the class of '97 wear caps and gowns after the April recess. Aside from its picturesqueness, the costume is democratic in its uniformity, and would strengthen the esprit de corps of the class in the last months of its collegiate life...
...material on the whole is fairly promising. Mills and Sargent, who rowed on the river with the crew last spring, will soon join the squad and should strengthen it materially...
...success of the chess team in the intercollegiate chess tournament held during the recess is very gratifying. Coming after the defeat of Princeton in debate just before the holidays it seems to strengthen the belief, with which some of us have endeavored to console ourselves after athletic defeats, that in contests of brain rather than of muscle Harvard usually wins...
...would be well if more mass meetings like the one last night and the football mass meeting last spring, could be held. They help greatly to strengthen interest in the athletic teams and, better, to bring about unity in the more or less loosely connected branches of the University and create community of feeling...
...eights in the fall. And never before have the students taken such great interest in the fall practice or looked more hopefully on the prospects for success on the water. The race today will increase the interest of the crew's supporters and, we hope, by its success will strengthen their confidence in Mr. Lehmann and the eight...