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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Harvard Crew Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 17, 1909.--Today's work for all the crews was the hardest since the arrival of the squads. As there was a strong south wind blowing straight down the course in the morning, the practice was necessarily very light. All the crews, except the Freshman four which went up into Moulthrop Inlet, rowed over to the west shore opposite the Freshman quarters at Red Top and paddled up and down over the last half-mile of the course. But in the afternoon the University crew was sent over the four-mile course...
...crew did well for the first mile, the second mile was rowed poorly. The crew did not seem able to raise the stroke, and was almost caught by the second four. Despite the fact that all the men in the Freshman four were rushing their slides and hurrying their work unnecessarily, the boat travelled fast and the crew gained steadily on the University four throughout the last mile...
...Social Service Committee has been to increase its usefulness in the University. Early in October pamphlets were issued containing 21 pages of information in regard to social service in Boston and Cambridge, and sent to all men who expressed on their registration cards a willingness to undertake philanthropic work. By this means many men were brought into touch with social service who otherwise would have known nothing of it. The committee has met regularly during the year at informal sessions in the Directors' Room at Memorial Hall. Its activities have been carried on under the direction of A. G. Cable...
...graduates have met weekly in dormitories and private houses for study of the Bible. The department owes especial thanks to Dean Hodges, Professor Ropes, and Mr. W. H. Tinker of the Mt. Vernon Street Church for their generous co-operation in conducting several groups. In addition to the regular work of the department, a course of eight lectures by Professors Platner, Royce, and Peabody was arranged for members of the Law and Graduate Schools upon the subject "The Fundamental Principles of Christianity." The average attendance at these lectures was about 100 men, and they have laid the foundations for establishing...
...Association. As a result a series of meetings of strictly evangelical character was conducted under the auspices of the Association, and although some opposition was raised on the ground that they laid too great emphasis on the theological tenets of christianity, yet, in the light of the year's work that followed, it has been well proved that they drew a group of men who would not otherwise have been reached...