Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Kishimoto Gr., handled his Japanese top even more skilfully than last year. His exhibition was followed by a broadsword bout between R. B. Merriman '96, and J. C. Hancock '95. The latter won, ten points to eight...
...undergraduates, has been one of the best features of the year. The 'varsity teams, by having their finances combined, are made self-supporting, and the only appeal for subscriptions comes now from the class teams. It would of course be desirable if an arrangement were made practicable, whereby not even the class teams had to rely partly on subscriptions; but, as that is out of the question this year, it only remains for us to discover what will maintain the teams in creditable fashion, and, once convinced that a certain sum is really needed, to contribute our individual shares without...
...methods. The great majority of students have only the vaguest ideas as to the regulations that exist. We do not take the pains to familiarize ourselves with the regulations as they are, but accept, instead, various statements passed on from class to class. Very often students will even go to the college office and, with perfect sincerity, cite regulations which have nothing but a mythical existence...
...Even if a student should not, on reflection, feel that a practically accurate acquaintance of the rules is a fitting part of every Harvard man's equipment, he must certainly reach that conclusion when he finds that he has been adapting his actions to some false standards. All the regulations relating to discipline, with the exception of occasional additions by the faculty, are embodied in three pages of a pamphlet on "Regulations for Students of Harvard College" which anyone may secure at the college office. This pamphlet is valuable, not only because it contains those regulations which really exist...
...subject matter is very interesting even to those not connected with the Prospect Union. Professor Peabody gives a brief but comprehensive sketch of the "Aims and Work of the Prospect Union." John Graham Brooks has written short summaries of the first two of the course of lectures on economics which he is giving at the Union. The two other leading articles are "The New Trade Unionism," by Robert A. Woods of the Andover House, Boston, and "Social Settlements in the United States," by Mr. Ely, president of the Union. Both of them are interesting and well worth being read...