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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harper of Yale will speak at some of the meetings. As is stated in another column, the school is not for religious purposes alone but is intended to afford all the physical recreation that can be had in a well situated camp. The opportunities for base-ball, tennis, boating, etc., that will be offered will be excellent. If judgment can be formed of the success of the school from the number of men who attended it last year, the experiment is certainly worth repeating. A large number of men from Yale, Princeton and other colleges will spend the two weeks...
...club library. The object of the committee is to secure complete sets of all reports by committees appointed by the college, of all reports of the president and treasurer in all departments of the college, files of college publications, catalogues of societies, class-day and commencement programmes, tickets, etc. For purposes of exchange duplicates will be welcomed. The call is signed by Luigi Monti, Albert H. Cutler, and Evart Jansen Wendell...
...subject that has never been carefully and fully investigated before-the real position of athletics in college life. Exaggerated ideas of the great amount of time spent by athletes in training, and of the consequent loss of time that ought to have been devoted to college work proper, etc.- will be confirmed or disproved by the result of this report. The committee has spared no pains to make their investigation absolutely complete, and their efforts have been remarkably successful. They have obtained a frank statement from nearly every undergraduate in college, of the amount of time he devotes to athletics...
...typical college has something like the following: Greek, 11; Latin 11; mathematics, 12; history, 5; physics, 4; natural history, 2; French, 3; German, 3; political economy, 3; political science, ethics, etc., 3; philosophy and logic, 3; total, 60. That is, Harvard College offers nearly eight times as many exercises per week in the various branches of human science as the ordinary classical college...
...professors and students, in conference with Professor Peabody, have desired to establish a plan by which students who are in prosperity can help students who are in need. They have felt that many students, especially seniors, would be willing to give away some of their books, clothing, furniture, etc., instead of selling them, provided arrangements could be made by which such supplies should be carefully distributed or lent to persons who need them. In particular a lending library of text-books is proposed by the aid of which men could avoid the expense of buying some of the books used...