Word: events
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This boat race will be the most interesting athletic event in which Harvard will have participated for several years past. A race with Cornell alone would be attended by a large contingent from every class; but the entrance of Yale into the contest lends it a double interest, so that it is safe to say that every Harvard man who can afford the expense would wish to go to Poughkeepsie this year...
...were received from Boston College, Pennsylvania State College, Haverford College, and Leland Stanford University of California, and were accepted. Further, Article IX of the Constitution was amended to allow the date of the bicycle races to be fixed by the executive committee. Hereafter the best performance in a field event during the two afternoons shall win the event, and every man competing for the first time must furnish a certificate signed by three members of the faculty of his college to the effect that he has attended studies five hours a week since October 15th preceding...
...choice of Class Day for the race involves many disadvantages. Seniors, unnecessarily compelled to choose between two events, would naturally select Class Day. Many undergraduates, too, might be expected to choose Class Day. At any rate, the conflict of dates will cause a division of interests, and neither event will be so successful as it otherwise would be. The crew will row its race before a mere handful of Harvard students, and if enthusiastic cheering counts for anything, it will be at a decided disadvantage, and setting the race on Class Day will tend to restore that old indifference towards...
...next event of importance among the undergraduates will be the debate with Cornell which is to take place Saturday, March 6, at the Academy of Music. The preliminaries resulted in the selection of R. S. Morris, C. L. McKeehan and A. L. Kramer, as representatives of Pennsylvania. The subject to be debated is, "Resolved, That the United States and the several states should establish courts of compulsory adjustment of the disputes between employees and private corporations which possess franchises of a public nature...
...students; for this will do much toward raising the standard of future intercollegiate speakers. In the apparent absence of other plans, therefore, we propose a debate between representatives of the Sophomore and Freshman classes. If this plan were tried and found successful it might well be made a yearly event. If, however, it should not offer the advantages embodied in the former intercollegiate debates or help in any way to take the place of those debates, it need not be regarded as a precedent...