Word: gaining
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...intercollegiate cup, presented to the league by E. A. Caswell, Yale '66, will be held one year by the winning team. In order to gain permanent possession of it, however, a team must win it for ten successive years. Of the eighteen tournaments held so far, nine have been won by Harvard, six by Columbia, and one each by Princeton and Yale. Last year Harvard and Yale tied for first place. The chances therefore of any one team gaining permanent possession of the cup are yet far off. Medals will be awarded the winning team from a die provided...
...intercollegiate cup, presented to the league by E. A. Caswell, will be held one year by the winning team. In order to gain permanent possession of it, however, a team must win it for ten successive years. Of the eighteen tournaments held so far, Harvard has won nine and tied one, Columbia has won six, Yale one and tied one, and Princeton one. Since last year's tournament resulted in a tie between Harvard and Yale, the chances for any one team soon to gain permanent possession of the cup are slight...
...this work is the prominence of the scientists who are faculty members in the leading universities of this country. Professor Cattell's statistics, given below, show the number of men working at several universities, who may be ranked among the thousand leading American men of science. Number of Gain since Institutions. men.* 1906. Harvard, 79.5 +13 Columbia, 48.0 --12 Chicago, 47.5 +8.5 Yale, 38.0 +11.5 Cornell, 35.0 +1.5 Johns Hopkins, 33.5 +3.0 Wisconsin...
...Copeland will give a Christmas Reading in the Union on December 21. He will read Christmas stories from Dickens, Kipling, Stevenson, and Thackeray. These are the same authors whose work Mr. Copeland rendered last Christmas, but as many men were unable to gain admittance then, the same program will be used. The reading will be open only to members of the Union...
...regretted that the mass meeting called last night by the Council of Federated Clubs--the first representative body to consider the proposed constitution--was compelled to spend so much time to gain a hearing, that it could express no opinion on the constitution itself. Its action is a protest against adoption by snap vote. For of how much force is a ratification at noon of a constitution proposed in the morning? The machinery of the resolution provides opportunity for popular initiative, genuine deliberation and incontestibly valid ratification. A vote against the proposed constitution therefore is nowise a condemnation...