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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...present Junior class in their Freshman year when 433 votes were cast. This good record was slightly marred in the Sophomore year when the vote was about 3 per cent. smaller and it was entirely spoiled in the elections this fall when only 232 men voted. A similar dropping off each year with a large decrease in Junior year is noticeable in most classes. No wonder some people call us indifferent, and it seems as though they are not far wrong in the matter of class elections at any rate...
...agreement for a triangular debate between Harvard, Yale and Princeton was adopted with a few minor changes. By this arrangement two teams from each University debate on opposite sides of the question under discussion on the same night. The subject of a similar triangular debate for Freshmen is now under discussion. The date of the intercollegiate debate has been fixed for March 26. F. M. Blagden '09 and R. G. Brown '10 were elected members of the Debating Council...
...early New England days. Since that time the custom of setting apart a day of general thanksgiving in the harvest season has spread from the shores of New England throughout the land until today it has become a thoroughly established national festival. Harvard College, more perhaps than any other similar institution, is distinctly associated with Thanksgiving Day, first because the earliest observances are to be found in and about Boston, and secondly because the first proclamation making a day of thanksgiving a national concern was drawn up by Samuel Adams, a graduate of this College...
...state roads, in order that trunk lines may be made between important cities. The final paper will be read by Hon N. J. Batchelder, ex-governor of New Hampshire, on automobiles and their regulation. He will consider especially other means of enforcing the necessary laws than by traps and similar methods...
...cast upon it by the shadow of coming events, the number strikes us as no more or less than most Lampoons. Some of the jokes and poems are funny and cleverly done, but they seem no more appropriate to the Lampoon than they would be to a publication of similar end and nature in any other college, or for that matter to any "funny paper" in general. One realizes perhaps that jokes are being cracked at the expense of college life, but of what college life one gets no inkling, unless indeed it be just that vagueness and lack...