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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Trophy Room is evidently in need of attention. It is a pity that such a custom as the preservation of athletic trophies should be neglected. Such trophies are not only desirable as souvenirs of past efforts and triumphs, but they are valuable as inspirations to future efforts. Pride in the past and hope for the future unite in calling for the maintenance of the custom...
Although the idea of relay races is probably a very old one, it is only within the past few years that the event has attained any prominence in our athletics. Exeter students claim to have been the first to have revived the custom. The popular features of the sport soon attracted the attention of athletic organizations,- notably the B. A. A.,- and the result was an immediate interest in it among the schools and clubs about Boston...
...remembered that the discussions were of conditions existing all over the United States. It shows a similarity of educational ideas throughout the country that was not to have been expected. All the conferences desire to have the elements of their several subjects taught earlier than is now the custom. With the exception of the Language Conferences, all desire to have perspective views or broad surveys of their subjects,-expecting that in later years these may be amplified. The fundamental questions, however, and the ones which affect most seriously the preparation in secondary schools, namely, questions 7 and 8, are answered...
Further, the language conferences desire to have the study of languages begin earlier than is now the custom, and state that not more than one language should be begun in any one year. It is generally expressed also, that in beginning the instruction of a pupil, the different branches of study should overlap, and materially aid each other. As to the question of college admission examinations, it is uniformly agreed that the examination for high school graduation should be identical with that for admission to college...
There are in a few local stores some heraldic shields which deserve the notice of Harvard men. In England, it is the custom for each university and each college in the university to have its own shield, and these shields are to be found upon the walls of nearly every student's room. A prominent graduate of Harvard, who is an authority on heraldic matters, has become interested in introducing the custom into this country. He has sent here several Harvard shields and also reproductions of the shields of Cambridge and Oxford Universities, and of Emmanual College from which John...