Word: useful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...handicap contest in the 120-yard high hurdles, open to both Freshman and University track team candidates, will be run on the baseball diamond on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock. It is necessary to hold the event here as it is impossible to use the track during secret practice. Coach Quinn wishes all candidates for the hurdles to enter this event, as it is important to find the new candidates of promise. There will be cups for first and second places, and entries may be made on the field...
...arbitrary in the matter, then let us have a bridge with a draw, provided only that it be wide, strong, and reasonably artistic. The old wooden relic has been too long an eyesore in its attractive surroundings, a menace to the lives of the many who are forced to use it, and an obstruction to traffic...
...Harvard men, to advertise Harvard, to make converts, to raise money, to assist in a general Harvard forward movement." As specific instances of the depraved advertising methods to which our governing bodies have had recourse in their efforts to keep Harvard numerically in the lead, Mr. Chaplian cites the use of the University's name in connection with President Eliot's edition of the classics, the "Joan of Arc" performance in the Stadium, the honors which were paid to President Eliot by Harvard clubs on his seventieth birthday, and the raising a few years...
Courts will be reserved and no charge will be made for their use. Balls, however, must be furnished by the contestants. The matches will be for the best two out of three sets and must be played on the day scheduled or else defaulted, except in case of rain, when they will be played on the day following. If their opponents fail to appear within one-half hour of scheduled time, contestants may claim default. Score cards have been placed in the CRIMSON office, and the results of the matches must be recorded by the winners each day. In case...
...thousand years ago the country was civilized but today social and political conditions are much the same as they were at that time. Views were shown of the different modes of travelling at the present time and one of a model of a crude taxicab which was in use nearly a thousand years ago. Pictures were shown of the Great Wall, which was completed in 204 B.C., and which has never been surpassed by any architectural feat in the history of the world. The Great Canal is another monument of the skill of the ancient Chinese...