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...difficult to realize the rapid concentration in cities which has taken place since the Civil War. This is partly due to the great immigration--sixteen and one-half millions in the same period. With overcrowding, and the influx of a body of people unused to free government, has come a depreciation of the intelligence of the suffrage, still further lowered by the creation of a class of industrial operatives whose task of monoto- nously repeating one small operation requires but small intellect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT ELIOT'S LECTURE | 5/19/1908 | See Source »

...Stadium yesterday afternoon, by a score of 15 to 11. With the score tied, 9 to 9, at the end of the second half, Cornell opened the extra period with a rush, Captain Lucker scoring a goal directly after the face-off. Cobb followed with two goals in rapid succession for Harvard and Captain Vance tallied the twelfth goal for the University team after a scrimmage. A few moments later both teams scored, and before the end of the period Vance and Furber each made another score. During the greater part of the game the ball was kept in Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE TEAM VICTORIOUS | 5/16/1908 | See Source »

...late William Henry Baldwin, Jr., '85, secretary of the CRIMSON, and chairman of his Class Committee, was president of the Long Island Railroad at the time of his death, and an officer or director in over forty other companies, including the Rapid Transit Subway Construction Co., the Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island Railroad, the New York City Street Railway Co., the Corn Exchange Bank, and the Equitable Trust Co. He was a trustee of Tuskegee Institute and of the Southern Education Board, and held the same position in Smith College and the University of Tennessee. Roger Sherman Greene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORMER CRIMSON EDITORS | 5/1/1908 | See Source »

This year the development of the squad has been more rapid than last year because of the favorable weather which permitted the holding of the interclass series earlier than usual. The defense is still inexperienced, but the attack is composed of veteran players and has developed more rapidly. As the southern teams are the strongest in the southern division of the Intercollegiate League, the University team will get an excellent trying out next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE SOUTHERN TRIP | 4/17/1908 | See Source »

...Intercollegiate Civic League, formed a few years ago, comprises the civic and political clubs in about thirty large colleges, with the object of raising the standard of public and political life by means of the college man's influence. Its growth has been rapid and extensive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIVIC LEAGUE CONVENTION | 4/1/1908 | See Source »

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