Word: danae
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dana has written another letter to the Boston "Post" on the subject of Harvard athletics. Another writer in the same paper urges the encouragement of class games to supply the place of intercollegiate contests...
...refreshing to turn from the report of the overseers to the views expressed by the Alumni of Harvard upon the athletic question. Both Mr. Dana and Mr. Wendell are prominent graduates, and they were also prominent athletes when in college. It is inconceivable that the Board of Overseers should retain their narrow ideas upon the subject after reading Mr. Dana's letter or Mr. Wendell's reported conversation. These gentlemeu have been out of college for some years, and therefore look upon the matter in a calmer, more impartial way than could be expected among the students. These opinions should...
...Dana was stroke of the University crew for three years and its captain for two and a half years, at a time when the interest in boating was quite as great...
...system of locking the doors of the dormitories at ten o'clock every night, and resuscitate the other petty rules of thirty years ago. They are opposing the almost unanimous opinions of the undergraduates, and even the views of the graduates-so well represented by Mr. R. H. Dana-are disregarded and laid upon the table...
...address to the college faculty by numberous signers, urging that the restriction be abolished which prevents the college nine from playing with other than amateur clubs, and a letter to the board from R. H. Dana upon the subject of athletic exercises, were received and laid on the table...