Word: closer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Since 1883, the points won by Yale have been 128 to 121 by Harvard. The scores indicate a much closer series than the reality. Yale has won 14 games to Harvard...
...members of every team shall be in regular standing in the college that they represent, will be effective in barring from college sports the semi-professional athletes who have sometimes been allowed to enter the contests. The decision of the convention in respect to the cup, however, is of closer interest to Harvard men. It was the intention of the giver of the cup that it should go to the college which should win it the greatest number of times. As Harvard has held the cup for seven consecutive years, it is impossible for any other college...
...students who remain in Cambridge will have a chance to call upon one of our most popular professors and we venture to predict that a large number will avail themselves of this opportunity. These informal receptions are what we need here to bring student and professor into closer contact than can be got through the medium of the lecture room. They tend to bridge over the gap which lies between the instructor and his pupils. It is unfortunate that in the case of Prof. Norton, the date fixed for the reception comes at a time when...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- At the suggestion of several members of his class in Philosophy IV, Prof. Palmer has set apart certain evenings in each month when he will be in his rooms to receive any men in the course who wish to form a closer acquaintance with him than can be obtained in the class room. The first of these informal receptions was held last Wednesday, and several men enjoyed a very pleasant evening in Proof Palmer's rooms. The example thus set by Prof. Palmer is certainly worthy of imitation by the other professors and instructors in college...
...same class in different colleges be identical? Many will probably be surprised at the diversity of those senior portraits. Although we are not justified in taking any of these as exhibiting the general type of senior in each college, they must be regarded as approximations to that type, and closer approximations as the number in the group is large. Perhaps in the case of Harvard the number is large enough to give accurately the general type. They serve fairly well to show the diversities in type of the students at the colleges and universities which are represented...