Word: won
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Dean Hurlbut in a short address explained the purpose of the meeting, and introduced President Hadley as one who while an undergraduate had won the highest honors his university could award and whose career as a writer and administrator has shown the wisdom of the choice. Most important of all, he is president of that university with which Harvard is most closely allied...
...type of men for which there is public need. The competitions must be so arranged that the prize winners justify the selection by their subsequent life. But have our prize winners done as much for the public as it has a right to expect? That the men who have won scholastic distinction at Harvard have later won more than their proportionate share of honor in the outside world has been shown by Professor Lowell's investigations. Though this is equally true in other colleges, the proportion is not nearly so decisive as it should...
...tournament has been won by Harvard nine times, by Columbia seven times, and by Yale once. The intercollegiate cup, which was won by Columbia last year, is held one year by the winning team, every member of which receives a silver medal. To gain permanent possession of the cup, a team must win the championship for ten successive years...
...bravest and most intelligent captain Harvard has ever had." He began his work the day he was elected and did not stop until after the Yale game. Another name must not be omitted, that of W. F. Garcelon, the real power which has made success possible. The team, however, won the game and to them the greatest praise...
...behalf of the Mt. Auburn Street crew, R. G. Henderson '10, captain, received the cups and thanked Mr. Fuller. One of them is a perpetual challenge cup, to be competed for each year, and the other was won outright by Mt. Auburn Street last fall...