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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University hockey team practice yesterday showed some improvement over the form which the men displayed in the Columbia game, and the team may be expected soon to get back into condition. Carr, point, has been laid off temporarily for a rest but will return to practice in a few days; otherwise the team is intact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Hockey Team. | 1/22/1902 | See Source »

...what do we mean by men being created equal? We mean that in natural rights every man is the equal of every other man. We mean that society should be as nearly as possible adjusted so as to enable every man to get from it in exact proportion as he contributes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "A CONQUERING NATION." | 1/13/1902 | See Source »

...arguments for imperialism may be summed up in a single sentence. "There's money in it, God's in it, we're in it, and we can't get out." Yet do we wish to purchase money with human blood? Already imperialism has cost thousands of our boys and millions of money. Are we to measure our strength by the number of men we can kill and the number of lands we can sieze; or shall we rise, and in rising draw all men unto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "A CONQUERING NATION." | 1/13/1902 | See Source »

...they would have to give up and the laborious training which they would have to undergo. Possibly we train too little, they train too much. The climate no doubt has an effect upon both. It may be that the nerves and nervous nature of the American enable him to get a better start in short distance races; it may be that the stamina and endurance of the Briton enable him to last better in long distances. No doubt each has something to learn from the other. But we Oxford and Cambridge University men, like our athletic brethren with whom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Lees Knowles on Athletics. | 1/9/1902 | See Source »

...real principle ought to be that a Harvard game is a University event; that what supports the teams is the enthusiasm of the whole body of undergraduates and graduates; that the contributor to athletics does not contribute in order to get the preference of tickets, but for the furtherance of a sport in which he is interested. The present system does not secure an audience which is distinctly from the University communities: near me on the grand stand sat scores of people who were simply members of an outside public interested in a great sport. It is right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 12/20/1901 | See Source »

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