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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...William James, I remember when I was in College, pointed out to me how many young men there were who never succeeded in accomplishing anything. He said, "Ability is very well, but many men of ability fall by the wayside and never reach any particular goal for lack of enterprise, lack of industry, lack of those things which we sum up under the general heading of force of character. And William James was in the habit of saying to his classes, and elsewhere, that any man who would devote his whole strength for a sufficient number of years to mastering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY | 6/16/1913 | See Source »

...clock both doors will be open for those leaving in conveyances and the carriage checks will indicate by which door they should leave. The taxicab companies have been asked to have taxis on hand. The street car company has also been requested to increase its service and no lack of conveyances is anticipated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIOR SPREAD TONIGHT | 6/16/1913 | See Source »

...relieved by Felton. The former did creditable work, aside from being a trifle wild, but was given wretched support. Only two of the visitors' runs were earned, the remainder coming from errors by Harvard. Aside from the actual blunders, the University team fielded slowly and seemed to lack the snap which has characterized the work of the last two weeks. Felton pitched good ball until the last inning when, with two out, a single, a three-bagger, and a wild pitch, gave Holy Cross two more runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GAME LOST BY LOOSE PLAYING | 6/12/1913 | See Source »

...increase in revenues together with more careful and judicious expenditure. It was not without misgivings as to the ability of athletics as a whole ever to be entirely self-supporting that we beheld the discouraging deficit in 1910-11, for it was explained as due in part to lack of support resulting from the total abolition of the old system of undergraduate contributions. The present report shows that it is entirely possible to live well within our athletic income and yet make appreciable progress not only in caring for the teams but towards the demonetizing of athletics. The CRIMSON desires...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SURPLUS REPLACES DEFICIT. | 6/4/1913 | See Source »

...completed there will be but one large building, opening at the front door of the Peabody Museum. This arrangement was the original plan of Louis Agassiz h.LL.D. '48, who founded the museum which bears his name, but it could not be carried out heretofore because of the lack of sufficient funds. Consequently sections have been added one by one as rapidly as possible. The present projection is the final addition. The connecting doors will be on the first and third floors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSEUMS TO BE CONNECTED | 6/3/1913 | See Source »

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