Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...inquiry is particularly gratifying at this time, since it enables the Athletic Committee to proceed with confidence in its plans for fitting out the field for the accommodation of the baseball and track athletic interests. Coming as it does from the most expert and authoritative source obtainable, the State Board in conjunction with the local Boston Board, its opinion is not to be disputed...
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. State Board of Health. Boston...
...reply to yours of May 26, asking information as to the existence of malaria in the region about the Soldiers Field;- the Board examined the territory, in which the Field is situated, in 1893, and found the following conditions, as reported by the inspector who made the examination. The only place in the neighborhood where any cases were known to have occurred, was at Barry's Corner, where it was stated that there had been six cases in the course of three years. With reference to the Soldiers Field itself I quote the inspector's words...
There is danger, however, that the fellows will, in this case as in others, think it unnecessary for them to take an active part in the matter. They should not look at it merely as an offence against college property, however, which it is the business of the administrative board to deal with, but as a personal insult against them as Harvard...
This plan of maintaining college discipline through the efforts of the students themselves has seldom if ever before been tried in Cambridge. Hitherto the Administrative Board has undertaken to look out for such cases, and, although this body is undoubtedly very well fitted to take care of most breaches of academic discipline, it certainly seems as though a committee of students could bring about better results in an instance like this. The actions of the Administrative Board often fail to punish to any great extent because they are carried on so quietly, and, in addition, a man who is disciplined...