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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fountain holder for $1.25. Members who bought Erckman Chatrian's Histoire d'un Payson in 4 vols., may return the last three vols. for which $1.95 will be refunded. The first volume will be furnished hereafter at 70 cents. The furniture rooms will be closed at the end of this week...
...fifth fiscal year began on Sept. 23 The membership fee is $2 50 at whatever time paid, and all memberships expire at the end of the fiscal year (Sept...
...change desired by those whose opinions Mr. Garrison has so well represented. We acknowledge much truth in what the gentleman urges, but take exceptions to his sweeping method of dealing with the evils. Let us see. What do we have proposed? The abolition of the secret, societies "whose end is secrecy and exclusiveness," a decrease in the monetary support of all athletic teams as well as the secondary expenses incurred by a personal support; and finally the discontinuance of all inter-collegiate contests. Now little knowledge of Harvard or of any great university is needed to show the utter impossibility...
There is, to my mind, not one good reason for tolerating these contests away from the college; and if there were, it would be far outweighed by the pecuniary consideration just advanced, the distraction from the main end of college life, the encouragement given to the gambling spirit so strong in the American breast, and the hostile feelings engendered and perpetuated between colleges whose only rivalry should be in the domain of the intellect. I am firmly persuaded that the intercollegiate sports are as much chargeable with the survival of the traditional animosity between Yale and Harvard, for example...
...amateur sprint runner of the world. The honor to Harvard and the pride which we must all feel alike in this success may alleviate in some degree the melancholy aspect of our other athletic sports. The college has only to regret that Mr. Baker has decided to allow the end of his college course likewise to end his career as a runner...