Word: comments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...publish this morning the report of the '87 freshman crew. The report is clear and concise, and compares very favorably with that of the '86 crew. But much comment and hard feeling would have been saved, had the report been published earlier. It is customary for the various athletic organizations to publish the reports of their financial affairs, and the earlier these reports are made public, the better it is for those who are interested in the payment of the deficits...
...have decided to try the experiment of issuing a literary supplement. We have felt for some time that in one department of college journalism Harvard is at a disadvantage. The CRIMSON, we flatter ourselves, represents Harvard creditably in the matter of news and current comment. The Advocate represents Harvard creditably in the line of current comment and light stories, and the Lampoon certainly places us far in advance of other colleges in the matter of humorous writing and illustration. But anyone familiar with college exchanges knows that in the line of serious literary composition, in the sort of work found...
...Some comment has been excited among the juniors by the fact that no '86 tug-of-war team has as yet gone into training...
...subject of hazing at the Annapolis naval academy is exciting a good deal of comment in congressional circles. It is probable that an investigation will be had of that subject and some guilty participants in that fun punished by removal from the service. The provocation of all this talk was the death of Cadet Strang. Young Strang went to the academy from Oregon. He was duly initiated by the boys, and was within 12 hours laid up in the hospital. Shortly afterwards he died. The cadets said he hurt himself by falling out of a hammock. To the contrary there...
...great degree at Harvard, and that a body of Harvard graduates brought together for the express purpose of fostering and renewing the pleasant reminiscences of college life, would not take such a backward step as our representatives seem to have done. We do not wonder that the outside press comment unfavorably upon this strange action. Harvard claims to open itself to all, to offer the advantages of study to each and all alike without distinction. If this be the case, a body of men whose very organization looks towards the advancement of Harvard and her interests certainly make a great...