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...practice in the evening. In the late afternoon, a gymnasium class is held, and in between all these exercises and prac- tices, scrub teams and individuals exercising on the floor are hampered. The lack of a tank practically cripples the swimming team which must practice out in Brookline at uncertain hours, or rely upon the caprice of certain owners for the use of dormitory tanks, and must meet teams accustomed to regular practice in well-appointed tanks, obviously at a great disadvantage. The apparatus of the Gymnasium is in general good, but in many cases antiquated, such as the rowing...
...past two years and was conducting excavations at Gizeh for this University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and was also under appointment as director of the Harvard Exploration of Samaria in Palestine. The delay at Constantinople in allowing a permit to dig at Samaria made it uncertain whether the application would be granted or not. In October last the permit was finally issued, and the actual work will probably begin next spring. The spring and summer are unfavorable for work in upper Egypt, owing to the heat, and it is therefore hoped that Professor Reisner will be able...
...Andover players were in general very fast skaters and handled their sticks cleverly. The forwards kept in line, stock to their opponents, and rushed the puck down well. They were weak and uncertain in their shooting, however, and were often easily broken up by the defence or by the University forwards following back...
...this indifferent attitude. But the large number of managers, changing annually and under very little control, as well as the cool reception which some extensions of courtesy have met with at the hands of certain visiting teams, have tended to make the entertainment of these teams a very uncertain quantity. It is true that the size of Harvard and the diversity of interests here render impossible the sort of a reception which a smaller college could offer; but the present condition of affairs is due rather to irresponsibility of managers and lack of well-directed assistance than to any fundamental...
...first century of Harvard College may be divided into three parts: the first period, the time of the old New England theocracy, coeval with the existence of the Commonwealth in England; the second period, an uncertain time, during which the old charter of the College was revoked, and a new and more liberal charter granted by William and Mary; and the third period, extending through the provincial days to the first stirrings of the Revolution...