Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...different branches of natural history has increased enormously lately, and there is scarcely a man who goes through college without taking at least two courses in that study. The opportunities afforded in the most advanced courses is unexcelled, which, perhaps, accounts for the large number of men who come here to make a specialty of the study of natural history. The only drawback now is that the present building is too small for all the demands made upon it, but the new addition will obviate this difficulty and add much to the usefulness of the natural history department...
...greatest evils which a large university like Harvard has to contend with is that the larger the university, the fewer the opportunities the students will have to come in contact with the instructors outside of their courses. There should be occasions on which the students and members of the faculty can meet as man to man and exchange opinions. The gain would not be wholly to the students. Matured men may learn much from earnest young fellows. Our college conference meetings give us the desired opportunity. Meetings will be held every fortnight, at which prominent members of the faculty...
Fourthly: Our management is accused of influencing the committee to decide against New York, thinking they might force Yale to come to Cambridge. This is as absurd as it is unfair and ungenerous. The foot-ball men could not influence the Athletic Committee. The votes of the overseers and of the faculty have time and again been against allowing Harvard to play in New York, and there was nothing else for the committee to decide. In fact they saved time by deciding at once...
...together and selecting the material, and in putting it into proper shape. The students are rightly excusing themselves in the restrictions put upon them by the faculty's regulations; causing, as they believe, an entirely wrong tone in athletic affairs. It is time to redouble the protests that have come in rapid succession ever since the day in 1882 when the faculty began to interfere with the students in the conduct of their sports, and to demand twice as strenuously as before a return to former days...
...some time, and will not be able to play again this season. Hodge, on the end of the rush line, was bruised in the game with Wesleyan on Tuesday, and is incapacitated. On Friday,Ivine had an old hurt renewed in a practice gam and probably will not come out again...