Word: less
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...class of 1909 has contributed a great deal to the baseball team for the last four years as no less than nine men from the class have been on the team. Of these, six are playing at present, and their loss will necessitate a complete reorganization next year. The places to be filled will be catcher, first-base, short-stop, left-field, and centre-field. Another pitcher will also have to be developed to help out S. T. Hicks '10, who will be the mainstay in the box next year. The only members of this year's team besides Hicks...
...regulations, the fee for Student Life Membership was a lump sum of $75; that for Graduate Life Membership a lump sum of $50. This amendment has made possible the acquisition of the full rights of Life Membership by the payment in the aggregate of $50, in instalments of not less than $10 yearly...
...available. In every class there are a certain number of men, whose executive ability has been tested in other connections, whose personality has given them prominence; men too busy to undergo a long, tedious competition, but who would perform gladly and excellently the duties of a proffered managership. No less than five such men, holding office by direct appointment, are now doing their part in managing major teams; they are known to be among the most fitting...
...instances, but the air is full of them. This must necessarily continue, so long as the present system is adhered to. What is the use of having a competition, if the best competitor does not win out? The money itself is hardly a consideration, since there are other and less obnoxious ways of raising that. The sole actuating cause seems to be the idea that there must be a competition of some sort, while there is not enough other work to be done to try out the capacity of the contestants...
...other who wrote "slept most of the time"? Two ways are wide open. Either I make the course so difficult in the first few weeks that only those who have a scholarly interest in psychology will take it. Then the number taking the course would be reduced to less than fifty men and it would be easy to take care that no one of them would regret it. Or I might make the course entertaining and adjust it to the level of the friend who "slept most of the time." In either case the course would beautifully climb...