Word: towards
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...present number of the Lampoon is distinctly profitable. The business managers have scored on the editors; from their point of view it must pay to advertise. The literary and artistic efforts of the number are directed toward the automobile, but writers and artists must still be under the depressing effects of the mid-years, for there is a failure to catch the joys and humors of the horse-less age. The front page, it is true represents Lampy's Trio speeding away from the dusty cloud which spells "gloom," and the centre-place tries to show that the automobile...
...intensely exciting, but was marred by the fact that the pulls lasted 2 minutes instead of 1 minute, the regulation length. Had the period been shorter the result might have been different. 1910 first pulled 1911 about four feet, but the Freshmen had more power toward the last and pulled the Sophomores nearly half the length of the Gymnasium. This was characteristic of the other tugs also. The final pull was won by the Freshmen. The human wheelbarrow race was very amusing, and resulted in a victory for W. M. Rand '09 and A. B. Mason...
...Toward this end we believe the University is following the proper course. Trips by professors and speeches at western Harvard clubs bring loyalty to the hearts of graduates and increase our academic reputation; but in no way can the younger generations be reached, except by an actual invasion by the undergraduates themselves. Their testimony on the breadth of opportunity involved in four years of life at Harvard will be heard by the younger generations, who, after all, are the ones we need most to reach...
...installed in the College buildings in or about the Yard, are welcomed by the undergraduates as a move in the direction of making our time-honored buildings as livable as their modern rivals, even if the alternations are put in entirely as a business proposition. Such additions all help toward making the dormitories what we hope sometime to see them-a center of University activity that will be sought by all the undergraduates, because they are fully as convenient as the modern houses and possess the added attraction of historic association. When that time comes it will be possible...
Captain B. M. Vance '08, A. W. Rice 3L., and R. E. Daniels 3L., spoke of the good prospects for the year, and urged the men to work steadily and conscientiously and do their part toward turning out a good team...