Word: true
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...schedule of the University baseball team which appeared in the Boston papers yesterday was not obtained from any one in authority. As yet the schedule has not been finally completed. The statement that the Athletic Committee has accepted it is true only in so far as the Committee has consented to a schedule of 23 games, leaving the arrangement to the captain and manager...
...competition of Dartmouth College is of great value to this University, for no one knows his true power until brought into competition. Its struggle should be welcome to all. The activity of the Dartmouth alumni has been remarkable in this line and they have made great claims for their college. One of these is the superiority of a small college over a large one. The difficulty with this argument is that it is likely not to last, for today Dartmouth is twice as large as Harvard was 40 years ago and just as large as the University of 20 years...
...Smith then declared that his purpose was to teach the men in the University to reverence their brother Americans, because they are true men. We admire courage, and yet accord it but small protection against the "mud" thrown by the unscrupulous newspapers. It is our duty to praise the good and to take little notice of the bad; and it will eventually disappear. Then we can obey the commandment "Love thy brother as thyself" or, in the words of Theodore Roosevelt, "Give every man a square deal...
...about Memorial board? The high price of board there during the fall has been attributed to the "transient" system. Three or four hundred men are eating there now under this system and about five hundred on the American plan. It is then important to know whether this accusation is true...
...done as much for the public as it has a right to expect? That the men who have won scholastic distinction at Harvard have later won more than their proportionate share of honor in the outside world has been shown by Professor Lowell's investigations. Though this is equally true in other colleges, the proportion is not nearly so decisive as it should...