Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Severance '09, who resigned the captaincy of the crew last month owing to a serious illness, has returned to College and is taking light exercise with a view to getting into condition. It is not certain yet whether the doctors consider his health sufficiently recovered to undergo the strain of regular rowing...
...Athletic Committee's compliance with the wishes of the Faculty, as expressed in the athletic discussion last spring. As compared with the list of 12 games which were formerly played, the schedule seems really too short; but the football authorities feel sure that the reduction will be no very serious handicap to the success of the team. There is one less game than last year, and Wednesday games in term-time have been done away with. This last change is a very desirable innovation from the Faculty point of view, as preventing absences from afternoon lectures. The only Wednesday game...
...scene of the play is laid in Athens. The plot deals with the repudiation by Charisios of his wife Pamphile on account of a serious quarrel. Two slaves, Daos and Syriskos, bring about a reconciliation by appealing to the parents' love for their deserted child, who is identified by a ring that has once been the property of Charisios...
...will confront President Lowell, one of the most important from an undergraduate point of view is the question of three-year graduation. The number of men who take their degrees in three years has increased with every graduating class, until now it has become a matter deserving of most serious consideration...
Commercial relations bind nations together and do much to preserve peace. Other factors are mutual sympathy among nations and a good understanding of one another, for there is no war so serious that it cannot be amicably settled if both parties so wish it. International arbitration is another strong factor making for peace. Many peace societies sprang up in the United States during the first part of the last century, and were the natural precursors of the Hague Peace Conferences. Many international conferences, meeting for other purposes, have led to strong unions. These are drawing the nations closer together...