Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...object of national pride not only to secure the permanent establishment of an institution which is so full of promise to American scholarship, but at the same time to reclaim for his country a scholar who has gained laurels in the service of a foreign university. America cannot afford to let her scholars seek employment among strangers while they are so much needed for the instruction of her own students...
...college has seen fit to have board walks placed in the yard, the spirit of grumbling inherent in human nature must find place in some other grievance. The most evident evils now are the pools and running water which collect at the western entrance of the yard. Cannot these streams be bridged over or induced to find some other channel than the pathway of instructors and students...
...University nine, and with the aid of these, a presentable team may be gotten together by spring. A number of games are being arranged for by the management, and some have already been settled upon with the freshman nines of other colleges, so that a lack of practice cannot be apprehended. - Yale News...
...announcement of the concert to be given in aid of the fund for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The willingness with which the three musical societies, the Glee Club, the Pierian Sodality and Banjo Club, accepted the invitation of the Classical Club to give this concert cannot be too highly commended. Harvard was largely instrumental in founding the American School, but has as a university been extraordinarily slow to contribute any actual sum for its support. To quote from an admirable editorial in the last "Harvard Monthly": "It is rather surprising that our students have done...
...cannot commend too highly the action taken at the mass meeting last evening. Harvard has taken a fair and decided position and has shown that she will not allow her policy to be dictated by the action of any other college. The meeting showed the universal sentiment of the college, that we have gone too far to withdraw, and that a new base-ball association must be formed. At a mass meeting held on Wednesday, Yale voted to empower her delegates to enter any league except a triple one composed of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. When Yale sees the position...