Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...have become increasingly popular in the University. In order to keep our intercollegiate relations upon a sane basis, it has been found advisable to create an interest in general participation in athletics, rather than to centre the attention of the undergraduates in a few important intercollegiate contests. For this reason every attempt has been made by the captains of the various University teams to make it possible for every one to take an active part in intracollegiate sport...
...have often heard it said, and I have reason to believe that men with contagious skin-diseases use the Gymnasium. I should think that they could be prohibited from so doing. The unsanitary condition of the building at present not only endangers the men who use it, but prevents others from coming...
...great population of provincial England is distributed very unevenly; the industrial centres, like Lancastershire, Yorkshire and Durham, are congested, while the rural districts are only thinly populated. The reason for this is that the more progressive of the rural population have abandoned farming and settled in the manufacturing towns. Although the people of these agricultural districts have advanced in learning, the physical appearance of the country is practically the same as in the eighteenth century. One of the most interesting parts of rural England is the Isle of Oxholme in Lincolnshire, which is the only part of the country where...
...some truth in this complaint few will deny. And though we have labored patiently to avoid this evil, the various schemes and methods thus far proposed and tried out have not been particularly successful; especially have the class meetings and smokers been ineffective. Now there is one conspicuous reason for this, namely, our inability to remember for this, namely, our inability to remember so many strange names presented to us at one time. For most of us it is comparatively easy to remember strange faces, but few of us can associate with those strange faces the proper names. With this...
...least twelve bona fide players and the captain must be given with each team entry. Individual players will be assigned to a team by the manager by signifying what positions they wish to play. The series will be started immediately after the spring recess and for this reason entries should be made at once...