Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...competition for the positions of manager and assistant manager of the Freshman track team will begin immediately after the Christmas recess. R. C. Floyd '11 will hold a candidates' meeting in Hollis 28 on Wednesday, January 4, at 7 o'clock, in which he will outline and explain the features of the week. No previous experience is required for qualification...
...nineteenth annual intercollegiate four-board chess tournament between Harvard, Columbia, Princeton and Yale will begin this afternoon and will continue tomorrow and Saturday at the rooms of the West Side Republican Club in New York City. The University team left Cambridge yesterday afternoon. The play takes place between the hours of 1 and 6 in the afternoon, and 8 and 10 in the evening. The games will be played with a time-limit of fifteen moves an hour, and all games unfinished by 10 o'clock will be adjudicated by the referee...
...merely for the benefit of a few people of great wealth. It is by no means difficult to make speeches and deliver lectures on that subject, nor to hold conventions in its favor and applaud declarations in favor of conservation. But as soon as men in actual practical work begin to apply the doctrine they meet with all kinds of difficulties; they are brought face to face with all kinds of selfish interests, and they are exposed also to the even greater danger of being honestly misunderstood by honest...
...attack on the scheme for a new Student Council has been criticized as purely destructive. It is certainly destructive as regards the present scheme. If this plan fails of ratification, however, then the ground will be cleared and constructive action may begin. It is our idea that the proper way to obtain an effective Council is as follows: Have a small body of men elected, either at large or by classes, to draw up a constitution. In view of the present discussion, there would be much material at hand to work on. This new constitution should embody real powers...
...first communication printed this morning deserves comment. To begin with, it states that the old Council is "not yet officially dead." If failing to perpetuate itself within its constitutional limits, and this it certainly failed to do, does not constitute its official demise, what can? The majority of even those in favor of the new plan recognize that the old Council is now defunct. Next, how can the defunct Council, or supposing for the moment that it still exists, how can its very nominating committee sit down and proceed entirely to revamp its constitution when provision for legally carrying...