Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...polo game between Brown and Harvard which was schednled for yesterday has been indefinitely postponed. The game will probably take place next week, should the ice allow...
Since the winners of the championship last year are not now in college, it has been decided to allow Hall and Jones, and Denison and Booth, the two couples who were tied for second place last year, to draw a bye to the end of the final round. Hence the winners of the tournament will have to play off with them for the championship. This step was taken because it will shorten the tournament by one round and will simplify matters in picking the pairs for the team...
...governed the whole University during the last twenty-five years. Though in this period Harvard has been the recipient of many gifts, the period is characterized rather by the business-like disposition of existing means and the careful development of every department as far as those means would allow. In all this there has had to be a ruling sense of proportion, a weighing of the needs of one department against those of another with the result that though some departments have been advanced more than others, there has been at least a steady progress in all. To tell...
...Will you allow me to say, in answer to your correspondent of today, that the Day of Prayer for Colleges has been for years observed with sympathy at this University. We do not interrupt the regular duties, or-as in some colleges-make the day a holiday, but on Thursday next, both at morning prayers and at the afternoon Vesper Service, there will be special reference to the day and its associations. I have no doubt that the Christian Association also, at its meeting at 6.45 p. m., on Thursday, will, as usual, keep...
After a service of more than five years as Dean of the Graduate School, James Mills Peirce has retired from that position, and this Board cannot allow the occasion to pass without expressing its high appreciation of his services to the Graduate School and to the cause of higher education throughout the country, as well as the regret of all its members at being deprived of a leader for whom they feel the warmest affection...