Word: toward
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fall lacrosse work has been progressing very satisfactorily although no steps have been taken toward the formation of a team. Quite a number of men have come out, but so far the practice has been very light. Later in the season a game will be played with a picked team of graduates...
Professor Pickering of the University Astronomical Observatory and a number of assistants were busily engaged during the eclipse of the moon last night making observations and photographs of the various phenomens. The photographic work was directed toward the discovery of any satellites to the mirror which may possibly exist. It will probably be some days before the observers will be able to compute the measurements taken last night and assert their full significance...
English 30, also conducted by Professor Baker, is a course in actual debating for which the number of students is limited to about thirty. It is given during each half-year as a half-course, but by special permission of the Department of English, both parts may be counted toward a degree. Except by special permission of the instructor. English 30 may be taken in the first half-year by those students only who have passed in English 18: but such men as have attained grade C for the first half of English 18, may take English...
Foster, as right halfback, played a creditable game, but frequently showed his comparative inexperience. Several times when the opposing end was boxed, he had exceptional chances for long runs, but instead of taking advantage of them, he turned in toward the scrimmage and was promptly tackled. Whitwell was entirely ineffective at left tackle and had he been removed sooner, the gains of the Maine backs through that side of the Harvard line would have been less frequent. Marshall was still slow in giving signals, but atoned for this fault somewhat by his skillful handling of punts in the backfield. Jones...
...question brought principally under discussion in the report falls naturally into two parts: How long a preparation shall professional schools of law, medicine, and the like, require of candidates for admission; and how far can the college go toward providing such preparation? To the first part of of this question there seem to be three possible answers. The University may put its professional schools on a par with the college, demanding for both the same secondary school education; it may demand the completion of the present four years' college course for admission to the higher schools; or it may demand...