Word: timely
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...first practice game of the year, the Freshman hockey team was defeated by the Crescent Hockey Club in the Boston Arena yesterday afternoon by the score of 4 to 3. As it was the first time the Freshmen had played in the Arena the team-work was very weak and the passing was inaccurate. The individual playing, however, was good. Sortwell, who scored two goals, Hopkins and Willetts made the best showing for the Freshmen. Fritz excelled for the Crescents...
...bill that is in effect today was enacted, and 700 national banks were organized. The state institutions were at first somewhat reticent about changing their charters, fearing inconsistency on the part of the federal government, or hostile legislation by Congress, but their hesitation was soon overcome. Since that time the number of national banks has multiplied rapidly, but the circulation, though limited only by their capital, has increased very slowly in proportion...
...University Dining Council has decided to keep the restaurant in Randall Hall open during the Christmas recess, and to close Memorial Hall during that time, thus reversing the conditions of a year ago. Members of Memorial need not sign off for the Christmas recess, as the board charges will cease with dinner on Thursday, December 22, beginning again at breakfast on Tuesday, January...
...agree that this is a time of storm and stress--an age of academic read-justment and reform. The new policies as to college work have gone into effect. They should result in stimulating a wider culture and a higher efficiency. If the word culture does not, the word efficiency must appeal to every young American. And every Harvard undergraduate should ponder well the demonstrated fact that without the attainment of the requisite power over intellectual problems by concentrated work, he can hardly expect to reach high place in after life. It does not make so much difference...
...They had as little to do with learning as possible, thinking their other engagements much more worth while, or made derogatory remarks about the futility of it all. It was the current belief of this generation that the men who eventually amounted to something in the world spent their time in the agreeable dalliance of College society while they were undergraduates and then in their professional schools would turn to their life work, taking there high rank and attaining in the world of men immediate success. This was reinforced in their minds by the gossip of their elders...