Word: whether
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...their opponents a goal, those having the goal to win the game. Further, that we should make alternate visits, one year to Princeton, and the following year they should visit Cambridge, and so on. At this point the delegates from Yale arrived. In answer to the question as to whether they had full power to act or not, they replied in the negative. This at once made the meeting an utter waste of time, as far as making arrangements with Yale was concerned, for her delegates could do nothing about playing with fifteen men until, they said, "a meeting...
...class as '79, which has been characterized by the smoothness of intercourse between its different sections, cannot elect its officers in an open meeting, we shudder for the future of less peaceful classes. What '79 wants, what the College wants, is able and efficient officers, not figure-heads. Whether they belong to this society or to that is a minor consideration...
...matter open to some doubt, we think, whether a number of students, authorized by none but themselves, have a right to travel through the country and give public performances under the name of the "Harvard Minstrel Troupe" or any like title. If there are any who are anxious for such professional distinction, and feel that their individual talents justify their organizing companies, well and good; they have a perfect right to do so as private persons, or as a band of Harvard students, though we should think delicacy might prevent the use of the latter title. But they have...
...days, if all goes well. It has been successful in securing some good new voices to fill the places left vacant by the late graduating class, and "bids fair to enter," as country newspapers would say, "into an era of unparalleled prosperity." We trust that, whether it attempts "real college songs," as it is sometimes urged to do, or gives itself up exclusively to the more chastened delights of the Chickering Collection, it will be as successful as it might be. Let the memory of that crowded house at Sanders Theatre last spring urge upon the Club the need...
...contributions, in order that we may have something by which to govern our choice. This editor is elected for one year, and thus a chance is offered for a position on one of the college papers without waiting until the middle of the Sophomore year. We invite all Freshmen, whether they have previously been accustomed to writing or not, to try for this position. As for '81, there does not seem to be any need for us to remind Sophomores that five editors of the Crimson are to be chosen from their class at the middle of the year...