Word: turning
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This afternoon the University team will play the last game of its schedule with Cornell at Ithaca. Inasmuch as Cornell has lost to Columbia and Columbia in turn has been defeated by Harvard, a victory for the University team in today's game will give Harvard the championship of the Northern Intercollegiate League. If the team loses, it will be tied for the championship...
...perimeter of the structure, will be built over the highest promenade. This canopy will have the appearance, from outside the Stadium, of another tier of windows, square in shape, in the same vertical line with the present lower rows. An elaborate cornice will surmount the openings. On this, in turn, a parapet wall will be constructed. In all, the new work will add approximately twenty feet to the height of the Stadium...
...improvement, and other changes were proposed on the postal cards sent out to the members of the University. It remains to be seen whether the halls will be more successful after the reforms have been made, or whether it is now too late for the tide of popularity to turn back again to the two institutions. The membership at present is higher than would be expected at this time of the year, and there is apparently satisfaction with the committee's methods. Everything possible will be done in the next two months to suit the present members of the halls...
...late years lacrosse has not been given the support which it deserves, but good teams have regularly been turned cut, and last year the championship of the Northern Intercollegiate League was won. In the South where lacrosse is flourishing Harvard is not generally successful, but perhaps this year's team will be able to turn the tables on its southern opponents...
Dean Briggs emphasizes the harmony existing between the Faculty and undergraduate members of the Committee. He points out that the inclination to turn sport into work is a fault which must be watched, yet it is deemed necessary by many graduates and undergraduates who cannot bear to see their College go down to defeat. Opposed to this body are the Corporation, the President, the Faculty, parents and a number of "thoughtful people who have watched with apprehension athletic sport overgrowing scholarship in what were designed to be institutions of learning...