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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...main, creditable, but there were not as many new contestants drawn out as could have been wished. To be sure, the time for training in the autumn is short, and the greater attractions of football and rowing take away some men's attention from the Athletic meetings; but this cannot wholly explain the poor exhibition made by some of the contestants. When we take into consideration the number of men in the University, it does not seem too sanguine to expect that at least five good men should compete in each of the more important sports. The weather was, unfortunately...
...been left to it. Although we are not to enjoy any of the advantages of this gift ourselves, we are heartily glad to be able to look forward to a day in the future when Harvard College will not have to be penurious in its expenditures. If the College cannot have the advantage of any such legacy as this at present, it can at least make the most of the sources of income which it already possesses. Any one with the least capacity for business can see, by looking over the list of vacant rooms in college buildings, that this...
...cannot sit with idle hand...
...officials, and the vehicle of the literature of the country. Mandarin is of no use to the few Harvard students who wish to study Chinese, since they would come in contact only with the Cantonese, who speak a language so different from the Mandarin that our professor himself cannot understand them. Mandarin is, however, valuable for those who wish to enter the Chinese consular service of American and European governments, or the customs service of China itself. When any such students present themselves instruction will begin at the professor's house. Five hours' work a day - two with the instructor...
...proportion, as soon as it is determined, will be put on the bulletin board. The aim of these changes is to lessen the number of possible ways of Probation or Suspension, and to leave no occasion for the plea of ignorance of the law. But absences from religious exercises cannot be added to absences from college exercises to occasion any penalty...