Word: though
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more desolate pictures are presented to our somewhat apathetic eyes than that afforded by the appeals of the permanent officers of the Senior class, who, though elected by the class, often lack its support. Charged by their classmates with certain necessary and vital duties, they have in past years been forced by the irresponsibility and procrastination of some members of the class to issue frequent and monotonous notices that the Class Lives are not yet complete or that pledges have not been returned by an even respectable proportion of the class...
...order that there might be some pivotal centre through which all the library interests of the University could be coordinated. The Harvard Library is by far the largest and most valuable college library in America and it stands as one of the ten largest libraries in the world. Though its main collections are in Gore Hall, there are besides the large special libraries of the Divinity, Law and Medical Schools and about thirty subsidiary or departmental libraries scattered about the precincts of the University. The administration of these has been carried on by the University Librarian, Mr. W. C. Lane...
...will be objected that as the class of men who win prizes usually stand in need of financial aid, this method affords the least embarrassing way of rewarding those who are the most deserving. Though this is true to a certain extent, the same result would be accomplished in a less bald way by a committee who should look into the needs of successful scholars, and in this way remove the cheapening effect of money prizes upon scholarship...
...tendency which has by this time developed into a habit all the more marked because of its spontaneity and its national character. In almost all the large cities in nearly every part of America, Harvard graduates have gravitated towards each other with the purpose of organizing Harvard clubs. Though, of course, these organizations are, on the surface, social, yet the real cause of their foundation is to be found in a far deeper motive. In the last analysis, all of them have been imbued with a most generous desire to spread farther the influence of the College and make...
...against the entire defence, a 15-minute scrimmage was held with the second team that resulted in a 2 to 2 tie. Pratt and Hicks scored for the second team, while Hornblower and Duncan made the goals for the first. The team-work of the University forwards was poor, though Duncan and Leslie together once carried the puck the length of the rink for a score...