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...captains and head coaches of the Harvard football elevens for the past seventeen years will meet this evening in the Union Club, Boston, to effect an organization which will be able to advise the men in charge of the football at the University, so that a definite policy and system of development may be carried on from year to year. The head coach, heretofore, has been appointed solely at the discretion of the captain of the team, who has had to interview as many of the old coaches as he could, in order to get from them their ideas...
...principal object of the trip will be to examine the moraines and kettle holes in the vicinity of Plymouth. The effect of these glacial features on the colonial history of the region will be briefly discussed. In the afternoon, an opportunity will be given to see the town of Plymouth and to visit the Museum of Colonial Relics there. The walk will be open to all members of the University. Exclusive of lunch, the cost of the trip will...
...captains and head coaches of the Harvard football elevens for the past seventeen years have asked a number of the players and coaches of those teams to meet in the Union Club, Boston, on December 16. The purpose of this meeting is to effect an organization which will be able to influence the men in charge of the football at the University so that a definite policy and system of development may be carried on from year to year...
...Burton opened the debate. It is necessary, first of all, he said, to define clearly the word "tendency." The affirmative advances this definition: a tendency is that which tends to cause, whether it does or does not proceed to an effect. Hence, it is unnecessary to prove that trade unionism would necessarily lead to more evil than good in the future. The probable tendency to evil is all that need be established...
...stories are better. In "The Elixir" O. Bates has a weird idea, which he handles with rapidity and effect. H. Hagedorn's story is interesting, and would have deserved more space if the author had been ambitious to tell us more of the internal processes of the mind of the villain...