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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...associations and should have the power to remove any officer who should be found incompetent for his position, the result would doubtless be advantageous to all interests concerned. As I understand it, the foot-ball and base ball associations are at present not only self-supporting, but even have a surplus in the treasury, while the navy and athletic associations have to depend largely upon subscriptions for support. One of the rules of the constitution of the proposed consolidation at Harvard is that, if a surplus remains at the end of the year in the treasury...
...present year has been singularly fortunate in respect to the large bequests that have been made for the promotion of learning and the advancement of the college in other branches of utility. So much has been given towards the embellishment of the University, that even the most sanguine of Harvard's friends hardly dared to hope for a further increase of funds directed to promote its interests, but through the generosity of an undergraduate and a former member of college, a need which has long been felt is at last to be fulfilled and the gymnasium will be rendered doubly...
...spring vacation in getting ready for their race with Columbia. The '89 crew has been the greatest loser in men who have left their boat to take seats in the 'Varsity crew and it is rather doubtful, if, in their present condition, they do any better or even as well as they did last year. The junior and senior classes will each enter strong crews and between them the race for leadership at the finish will be well contested...
...elder Aggassiz learned something one day in Chicago. He saw a workman place five bricks in a pail even full of water without causing a drop to run over, and the great naturalist handed the man a $2 bill and made a note of the circumstance...
...able body of successors who maintained the glory of the school. At the beginning of the 13th century there were 10,000 students in Bologna; toward the end of the century the number had doubled. The town of course did its utmost to keep the trade of these foreigners, even to the extent of binding the professors by oath not to teach elsewhere but in Bologna. The extortions and injustice to the students at last brought about voluntary associations based on geographical lines, which ultimately became the University of Bologna. The mediaeval conception of universitas is the civil law idea...