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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Statistics of the classes graduating at Harvard from 1885 to 1892 inclusive, show 49.8 per cent. were Republicans, 25.5 per cent. were Democrats and 27.4 per cent. Independents...
...gate receipts shall be used as follows: (a) Expenses of the tournament and the medals; (b) Ten per cent. of the balance to be kept by the Treasurer as a contingent fund for incidental expenses and for special medals and prizes to be offered at later tournaments; (c) A fair allowance for expenses to each of the visiting teams; (d) one-half of the balance to the chess club of winning college, and the other half to be divided equally among the chess clubs of the other competing colleges...
...three parts, physical, intellectual and moral; yet really the individual is one and is not to be separated. We have noticed for many years that no immoral athlete is trustworthy, and the same proves true in after years, of a man intellectual but immoral. Though perhaps only two per cent. will ever make noted athletes. You can all develop strong, robust bodies. You can strengthen your wills and characters, and in the many opportunities this university affords you can all use your natural talents and gifts. Nor is there need that your lives should be selfish; each can help...
...often said that the tendency of a Harvard education is to make men believers in Free Trade. This does not seem true. Of the 1619 students graduating in the years 1885-92, 1430 expressed party preference, 49.8 per cent. were Republican 25.5 Democratic and 24.7 per cent. independent. Of 153 graduates of Harvard, who have held high office in State or National Government, 114 may fairly be classed as believers in the principles of the Republican party, and 39 in those of the Democrats...
...California, 84; Princeton, 75; Michigan, 66 3-4; Brown, 65 4-5; Pennsylvania, 62; Yale and Harvard each 57 2-5; Virginia, 51 5-10; Lehigh, 44; Johns Hopkins, 39; Williams, 22 3-5. Columbia stands last, having lost thirty one students in five years, or two per cent. loss...