Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Board of Overseers, yesterday, it was voted to print both the majority and minority reports on the petition of the alumni in favor of allowing the nine to play with professionals...
...Bean, the Belle and the Bandit" and "The Bear, the Belle or the Bandit." It is customary, however, for the daily newspapers to wander so far from the truth in reporting everything connected in any way with Harvard that these trifling irregularities can be easily pardoned. The alumni interested themselves to make the stay of the members of the theatricals as pleasant and agreeable as possible, and for thier efforts in this direction the thanks of the college are due. It only remains to be seen whether with the three performances that are to be given in Boston next week...
...acting and dancing of the men were loudly applauded and after every solo there was a perfect shower of bouquets. The club was also given a reception in New York. The alumni in New York were very much pleased at the success, especially as the Columbia theatricals, given the week before, were totally eclipsed...
...Boston Herald of a few days ago published a short item stating that the Harvard Faculty had positively refused the petition of the Alumni requesting that the University nine be allowed to practice with professional teams. Inquiry proves this statement to be utterly false. The Faculty have made no public statement whatsoever; indeed the matter still remains undecided among the members themselves. In deciding this question the Faculty are exhibiting a fairness for which all the students of the University ought to be grateful. None see more clearly than they that there are two sides to the question; and then...
During the early part of the winter certain members of the Harvard Club of New York determined to find out the views of the alumni of this University in respect to allowing our nine to play with professionals. The result of the investigation was the almost universal acknowledgment by the graduates that the present system was unjust to the students. A fair statement of the case to the faculty was therefore decided upon. In order to show that the movement was not local and was not confined to a few men, the signatures of over two hundred of the older...