Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...glad to confirm the report that Mr. W. A. Bancroft, '78, will be able to coach the University Crew during the entire year. Every one knows that this is one of the seasons which are sure to come every three or four years, when the crew is composed, for the most part, of new men, and when there is all the more reason why their training should be most carefully looked after. It is safe to say that the men who are to row against Yale next June must be in better form than any Harvard has yet turned...
...occur, it is found to be consistent with a considerable gain in percentage in the Senior year, it may at any rate be fairly concluded that the facts do not show that the interests of the less diligent class of students are sacrificed. If our further experience should confirm these negative conclusions, we should only have to consider how we may best and most safely secure the more industrious part of our students the permanent enjoyment of the positive advantages of the system . . . . . That these positive advantages of the voluntary system are not gained in full measure by the whole...
...CORRESPONDENT of the University Magazine, confused by the moral eccentricities of college students, suggests, as morality appears to be dependent on custom, that a convention of delegates be held at Philadelphia, "who shall be empowered to ratify and confirm, for their respective institutions, such code of morals as shall be agreed upon by the Convention...
...revolution in thought which he foresees will take place within the next twenty-five years even among the fossilized inhabitants of old Plymouth. He informs us that game is plenty; and a brace of fat partridges hanging in the office, shot that day by a boy, serve to confirm his statement and make us eager for the fray. We soon retire, having arranged for an early start in the morning...
...only change in the programme for Alumni Hall is the adoption of colored waiters in place of girls, as first proposed. There seems to be some misunderstanding as to appointment of officers for the year. It is officially stated that the new association will be called upon to confirm the appointments made by the Thayer Club last year, and to elect officers according to rule...