Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...first ten minutes of the game between the first and second elevens very little fumbling was done, but toward the end it seemed impossible for the backs to handle the ball cleanly. Both teams relied entirely on mass plays and punts, as end running was out of the question. The first team barely held its own in punting, but in line plays it did better, scoring one touchdown by straight football. The second team also got a touchdown, on a fumble by Graydon...
...best part of the paper is Col. T. W. Higginson's article defining imperialism, which he considers the one great issue of the campaign. The main purpose of the article is to give the Harvard man, who is voting for the first time, advice on the main question at stake. The recent actions of England are compared with the intentions of the Republican party, and are used as arguments to prevent Americans from imitating their English cousins. The article is powerful and convincing...
...modern influence, to be sure, is against this spirit, thanks to the prominent position which science has taken of late years. Imagination and poetry are scoffed at and reduced to the tests of analyzation. No one can deny that a spirit of plain reality is most invigorating; the question is whether science is the real end in all that some of its followers would have us believe...
First undergraduate prize-"The Practical Philippine Question," by L. G. O. Smith...
...three principles: that education should always recognize the fitness of different minds for different work; that the process of education need not be and should not be, forbidding; that in earlier systems of education, natural science had not a fair place. These three principles are emancipatory but Dean Briggs questions whether the emancipation had not been carried too far. It is generally accepted that at some stage of education the elective system is desirable, but that it should extend down with more or less modification through college to grammar school, as the present tendency seems to be, is in Dean...