Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...action of the Overseers in voting to extend the privilege of voting for Overseers to all graduates of five year's standing from any professional school has drawn a protest from the alumni of the college. A petition that a definite settlement of the matter be postponed at least a year has been prepared and circulated among prominent alumni in Boston. In all there are 150 signers. The petition was presented to the Overseers last week and will be considered at a special meeting this morning...
...views of the new College buildings as they have been erected. It keeps a record of the literary productions of Harvard men, and prints critical reviews of the more important works. It publishes quarterly the official records of the Corporation, a list of marriages, and the necrology of the Alumni. It includes in its news temporary members and special students in all departments of the University. The Governing Boards regard it as a valuable medium for extending the influence and making known the resources of Harvard University...
...young men entering college is still too high. This has a tendency to turn students into the professional schools without a preliminary college course. He closes with a reference in detail to the many needs of the university and urges generous consideration of its purposes from friends, alumni and from the state...
...Graduate Athletic Association meeting tonight calls many alumni to Cambridge to forward a project which bids fair to greatly strengthen our athletic policy in centralizing and controlling graduate interest. The plan is by no means a new one. It has been carefully considered and formulated by those who set the active movement on foot six weeks ago, and that it meets with widespread approval is shown by the large number of favorable responses to the circulars issued...
...plan for an Athletic Association of Harvard Alumni advisable...