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Ninety students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working in shifts of thirty each, helped to test the new 21,000,000-gallon pump at the Chestnut Hill pumping station Wednesday. The first crew went on at eight o'clock in the morning and stayed until five in the afternoon; then they were relieved by a crew which stayed until after midnight, when the last shift went on until morning. Most of them were stationed in the engine room, where every part of the engine and boilers was thoroughly tested. Readings were taken from all the gauges every fifteen minutes...
...closely in young people. What the boy wants, and what he can best get at home, is the foundation of ideal on which his life is to be built, and on the strength of which depends not only his pleasure but his success when he at last comes to shift for himself. There are more qualities that go to the making of a man than self-reliance, which well becomes only a strong character on which reliance may confidently be placed, and is therefore unbecoming in young boys, whose characters are necessarily unformed. The boarding school too often developes...
...members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers are men whose opinions are not subject to sudden shift. With them at present so strongly opposed to the increase, no fear can be entertained for the future. Harvard's tuition fees will not exceed one hundred and fifty dollars for many years to come...
...yards; Corbett one of 50, and two of 60 each. It was not often that a back failed to make the distance in a single down. As a rule the halfbacks kept well with their blockers, but Corbett showed a strong tendency to break away and shift for himself. As it happened he was unusually successful in dodging his way out from the crowd, but he would never have been so fortunate against a Yale team. This fault is an old one which needs careful watching...
...have with the material at hand. The team does not lack snap or energy to any marked extent, but it is this great want of team work and a too great reliance on a few brilliant individual plays that is one chief fault. Above all, this tendency to shift men about-so deadly characteristic last year-is not a commendable one. Last year there was change after change +++till barely a week before the Yale game, and then we won+++ Why the eleven does not play together and why we do not win. And this is exactly what is being...