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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boylston Prize Speaking. It is only just to say that this interest has been in a great measure the direct outcome of Mr. Jones' work. The resignation of the permanent instructor will undoubtedly act as a serious drawback to the work in elocution for the future. It will be almost impossible to fill Mr. Jones' place, as he is to-day ranked with Hibbard, Cunnock, and Churchill, as one of the foremost exponents of vocal expression. John McCullough and Mary Anderson studied with him, and it is understood that many flattering offers have successively been made to induce...
Yesterday the 'varsity crew gave an exhibition row. At about half past four almost two hundred spectators had assembled on the boat-house float, and shortly after that time the crew appeared. The crew was the same as stated in yesterday's CRIMSON, except that numbers 4 and 6 changed places. This on the whole seems an advisable change. The crew pulled up and down four or five times between the two bridges, affording the spectators an excellent opportunity to watch their rowing...
Thirty-four years ago the first race between Harvard and Yale was rowed. It took place on Lake Winnipiseogee, N. H., and was won by Harvard. Since then there has been a race between the two colleges almost every year...
...been rowed ever since. The course selected for this annual race was that on the Thames River, at New London, which has proved to be a most excellent one. Since 1876, the year after the association was given up, Harvard has won six and Yale four races. These have almost invariably been well contested, that of 1882 being especially fine, when Harvard beat Yale by scarcely three seconds. The fastest time recorded was that made by Yale in 1884, when she won in 20m. 31s. Last year, although Harvard had an excellent crew, the time made was rather bad, owing...
...Board of Overseers met yesterday, and by their action destroyed the last element of religious compulsion in the university. Harvard College, when founded in 1636, was intended to furnish an essentially religious education to its undergraduates. The ministry was then almost entirely composed of these Harvard graduates; but Harvard has outgrown all this; she is now a university with a divinity school of her own, and a law school of her own, and a scientific school of her own; she does not intend that her academic department shall turn out nothing but ministers, or nothing but lawyers, or nothing...