Word: branch
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thought out, and need but little comment. The editorial salutatory has been intrusted to Professor William Sloane, whose theme is "History and Democracy." He argues hopefully from the popularity of histories in this country against the notion that democracy is unfavorable to a high order of productiveness in this branch of belles lettres, or that a temporary exhaustion is manifest...
...Hoyt, the pole vaulter is running the high hurdles. He has not tried this branch of athletics since he left school...
...undergraduates returned to Cambridge. He said that he would hold November 9th, open for a possible game with Yale until October 5th. If no invitation to play came before that time from Yale, then Harvard would fill in that date and would not meet Yale in any branch of athletics for several seasons...
...30th of last May a meeting of Harvard graduates and undergraduates was held at the Parker House in Boston to discuss the football situation. There were present at the meeting about thirty men, most of whom represented some branch of athletics. It was discussed at the meeting whether Harvard could in any way withdraw from the position she had taken with regard to football, either by retraction of the letter written by Dr. Brooks, or by making overtures of any nature to Yale. It was decided then that the only sportsmanlike thing for her to do was to stand...
...University of Pennsylvania entered Friday on its one hundred and fifty-sixth year. The number of students is increased in nearly every branch of the college. In the medical school the freshman class this year numbers about 250, and is larger than that of 1894, while the upper classes will include fifty undergraduates from other colleges...