Word: worded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Story began by explaining that what President Eliot had said in the preceding lecture of Harvard in the fifties was substantially true of Harvard in the sixties. The change in the numbers was slight, and the buildings, curriculum, etc., were practically the same. The one word which best expresses the difference between Harvard of today and Harvard in the sixties is simplicity. College men then were more simple in every way than they are now. In the sixties there were rich men in college, but the poor men were in such a vast majority that they set the fashion. They...
After some discussion, the Yale Freshman Union and the Harvard Freshman Debating Club have decided to insert the word sea-going in the question chosen by the Harvard freshmen for the joint-debate on May 15. The question now reads, "Resolved, That there should be a large and immediate increase in the sea-going navy of the United States." The Yale Union has chosen the negative of this question...
...practice and a game of "rag," the lacrosse squad played a regular game with two goals yesterday on Holmes Field, for the first time this season. Some of the defense work was weak, but on the whole the playing was good, and gives promise of a successful season. No word has as yet been received from Princeton in regard to the challenge for a game...
...Roosevelt's talk last night was a sincere, straightforward appeal to Harvard students to put an end once for all to that spirit of individualism, which has been called Harvard indifference, and which has done so much to hurt the reputation of the University. Every word of Mr. Roosevelt's speech was true and should be taken to heart by the students...
...talk to be given on Thursday night by Mr. Theodore Roosevelt does not need any word from us to recommend it to the students of the Univesity. It will be one of the most interesting events of an unusually eventful week. Probably there is not a Harvard man to whom the name of Theodore Roosevelt is not known, and to whom it does not represent a man who has always shown the deepest loyalty to his Alma Mater. As a speaker he is enthusiastic and eloquent and invariably entertaining. Mr. Roosevelt has consented to come to Cambridge, though his time...