Word: tending
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cower before threatened rustication. The tone of the paper is of course not serious, but such a treatment of the subject even in mocking vein is to be avoided as dangerous and apt to mislead. Were such a sentiment prevalent, we have no doubt that cheating would tend to become more instead of less common...
...encouraging the men when they go to bat; but the pumped cheering and confused hub-bib during an exciting moment are decidedly out of place in an amateur intercollegiate contest. Not only is such applause unfair to the visitors. It is a great question whether it does not tend to confuse and excite the University players...
...University receives numerous gifts, from which a sum might be devoted to a small number of scholarships for Southern students. An appropriation for such a purpose would not only provide a lasting memorial to soldiers who died for the right as they saw it, but would tend to increase the Southern representation which the University so sadly lacks...
Tonight a University team meets Yale in a branch of sport which for some reason for other is regarded with less interest at Harvard than at almost any other university. The miserable facilities of the Hemenway Gymnasium account in part for this feeling, for they tend to prevent many men from playing basketball; but even so it is hard to understand why there are only 20 candidates for the team out of about 1450 men eligible to play. With such a small squad to begin with, and with a schedule shorter than most of the other teams have...
...convinced that if an undergraduate sentiment which will tend to frown upon this practice of leave-taking can be created, a weighty argument against the continuation of intercollegiate athletics will eliminate itself. J. L. DERRY...