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Dates: during 1900-1909
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The Harvard Athletic Committee, at a meeting held January 18, requested its chairman to communicate to you its appreciation of the services which you have rendered to Harvard during the period in which you have been acting as head coach of the football team. Those services have not been limited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENDS MR. REID | 2/13/1907 | See Source »

The poetry is not strikingly good. "The Tale of the Stolen Squad" displays easy mastery of narrative verse and must have been fun to write. "Sea-Mist" is poetic--in part, at least--but only intermittently skilful in versification. It commits the indiscretion of beginning its first stanza with a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review of Monthly by Dean Briggs | 11/27/1906 | See Source »

Yesterday afternoon the University baseball team played its first practice game of the season with the second in a six-inning match on the Freshman diamond. Although much drier than heretofore, the field was still very soggy about the pitcher's box and the home plate, making accurate work impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Practice Game of Baseball Team | 4/3/1906 | See Source »

Turning to the poetry of Brittany, M. Le Braz said, "Every Breton because of his national celtic traits is born a poet." The collection of lyrics and epics published by the Viscomte de la Villemaque in 1839 was ranked by George Sand above Homer, and a more recent collection by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third Hyde Lecture Yesterday | 2/13/1906 | See Source »

It is to be hoped that the first issue of the Lampoon at least in so far as the "jokes" are concerned, is not a promise of the standard which we may expect in subsequent numbers. Conceivable as it is that at the beginning of the year, good material should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review of the First Lampoon | 10/7/1905 | See Source »

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