Word: majority
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Club of Boston has elected Major Henry L. Higginson '55 president. The other officers have been elected as follows: first vice-president, I. T. Burr '79; second vice-president, J. W. Farley '99; secretary, A. J. Garceau '91; treasurer, F. S. Mead '87. E. H. Wells '97 and S. H. Wolcott '03 have been elected to the executive committee...
Looking back over the number of games in the schedules of the past fifteen years we find two distinct climaxes. The first was in 1893-94 in the case of football and baseball, the two major sports which have caused the trouble. The greatest number of games a University football team has ever played was thirteen in 1893 and in the spring of the following year the baseball schedule was the longest on record, containing thirty-three games. As these figures have gradually decreased the schedules of the minor sports have increased, until the climax was reached last year when...
...Demolins 1G., C. S. Poore '98, C. C. Trump '09, O. W. Roosevelt '12, assisted by the composer. IV. (a) "Lullaby," A. W. Locke '05 (b) "Lovesong from the Greek," C. B. Roepper '10 (c) "The Wind," F. R. Hancock '11. T. Lynes '11 V. Sonata in C major, op. 53, for pianoforte, Beethoven P. G. Clapp...
...taking part in intercollegiate sport by scholastic difficulties. It implies that a candidate for a University team is unable to do his academic work and his athletics at the same time, and his courses suffer. Were this the case there would be no athletics. The statement of the four major captains on another page, warning their men of probation and other evils, indicates not only a keen interest in the success of their teams but that they have a proper sense of the situation from the standpoint of the University. They propose that their men shall do their work carefully...
Charles Lowell '54, of whom Major Higginson spoke at greatest length, was full of mischief and fun, always ready for anything, but a brilliant scholar, graduating at the head of the class of 1854, at the age of 19. After leaving the University, he was employed in a counting-room, and later worked as a mill hand, in order to study, the men of the working classes. Through obstinate disregard of his health he contracted tuberculosis, making it necessary for him to travel. He tried Spain, Italy and Aigiers in turn, but finally returned to America and went to take...