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...twenty-two debates held with Yale, Harvard has won sixteen, and also ten of the eighteen held with Princeton. Last year the University team lost and their defeat was due in part to insufficient financial support by the student body. If the University wants to continue this splendid record, it must support its teams financially. At Yale, debating is supported by the college office, and at Princeton by two debating societies to which most of the students belong and pay annual dues. At Harvard it is true that the Coolidge Fund pays part of the expenses of the debaters...
...Freshman baseball teams were held yesterday afternoon in the Cage at Soldiers Field. The University candidates had been getting into condition by taking daily exercise on the chest-weights in the Gymnasium during the previous week, but this was their first real session of baseball practice this year. Sixteen men reported. The first call for Freshman battery candidates brought out twelve...
...sixteen members of the present Congress from Massachusetts the following eight are Harvard men: Frederick Huntington Gillett, LL.B. '77, Republican, of Springfield; Thomas Chandler Thacher '82, Democrat, of Yarmouth; Samuel Ellsworth Winslow '85, Republican, of Worcester; Augustus Peabody Gardner '86, Republican, of Hamilton; Andrew James Peters '95, Democrat, of Boston; Michael Francis Phelan '97, Democrat, of Lynn; William Francis Murray '04, Democrat, of Boston; John Jacob Rogers '04, Republican, of Lowell. Of the two United States Senators one is a Harvard graduate, Henry Cabot Lodge '71, Republican, of Boston, and the other, Winthrop Murray Crane h.'03, Republican, of Dalton...
...gathered some figures from classes that have been some years out of school and whose members have been able to test their quality as workers in the world. The incomes of the members of the class of 1893, for example, were asked for when the class had been sixteen years out of college, and the figures are here given. Of the class, 152 men gave replies. The highest income was $52,500, the lowest $1000 with an average of $5576. Thirty-eight men receive incomes above the average, more than one-third of the whole. The seventy-sixth...
...time all of the best football players were at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, with Pennsylvania looming large in the offing. Under such circumstances it was possible for a single observer to study all of the material in action against one another. But these favorable conditions have been gone these sixteen years and more. Today there are 300 college and university football teams in the United States presenting a field of material in excess of 10,000 men. Manifestly, it is impossible for a single observer to see more than 28 of these elevens in action and these cannot...