Word: time
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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With the growth in importance of the minor sports, the injustice of the two-period rule has become more and more apparent. In October, 1904, the Athletic Committee, believing that the undergraduates were devoting too much time and thought to athletics to the detriment of their college work, decided that no man should represent the University in more than two of the three periods of athletics in any one year. They were unwilling, as was stated by Professor White two years ago, "to countenance the continuous devotion to athletics and the amount of absenteeism involved in membership on some University...
...coach of the Detroit Boat Club, and in 1901 and 1902 held a similar position at the Weld Boat Club of the University. The contract provides that Wray shall devote his attention to whatever crew the captain of the University crew shall at any time designate...
...memorial to the Harvard men who entered the service of the United States at the time of the Spanish War and died either as a result of wounds or from disease or exhaustion incident to this service, will be placed in the Living Room of the Union. Out of the 389 Harvard graduates and undergraduates who entered the army, eleven died as a result of their service...
Coach Wray has been re-engaged on a five years' contract to coach "whatever crew the captain of the University crew shall at any time designate,"--the condition of his original engagement. Though the saving clause is thus retained the real meaning is obvious: Coach Wray's regime has been a success and is to be prolonged. Members of the University who have watched his methods know that he has established a system and inspired a confidence beyond anything the old plan of graduate coaching with perennial changes and reiterated mistakes could hope for. We welcome his continuance...
...large part of the time of the House is taken up with appropriation bills. The session of Congress which has just closed was of ten weeks' duration and during that time, one thousand million dollars was appropriated, or ten millions a week. We are now passing through a veritable orgy of Extravagance. With an enormous debt, and a large annual defleit, the Ways and Means Committee is now considering the revision of the tariff, and on next Tuesday will present a bill to Congress which, it is hoped, will increase the annual revenue by one hundred millions of dollars...