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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Finally, we wish to call to mind the degeneration of the Harvard cheer. Everyone knows that the cheer is three times three, but few ever cheer three times three. It is always nine nowadays. Formerly the Harvard cheer was slow and dignified; now it is rapid and assertive. Before Harvard men attempt to lead cheers, let them be certain that they know the interval which should be given between every third 'rah. All should keep this in mind. Remember the interval, and restore the characteristic feature of the Harvard cheer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/4/1887 | See Source »

...experience, 29 feet 7 inches having been covered in 1854 by an athlete with weights in his hands, whereas the "record" for the long jump at the annual Inter-University sports is only 22 feet 10 1-2 inches, which was made in 1874: and the longest distance ever known to have been jumped without the aid of weights, is the "record" of 23 feet 2 inches, made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern vs. Ancient Athletes. | 4/26/1887 | See Source »

...season in base-ball has begun. The nine has played four games which have been, as is usually the case with the amateur nines which Harvard plays, walkovers. Practice has been carried on at a great disadvantage. The caprice of Cambridge weather, has made its effect more potent than ever, and if the elements have designs, they have done their prettiest to make defeat certain for Harvard, or else to make the victory more brilliant, since the obstacles, which they have thrown in our path have been great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/25/1887 | See Source »

...Laughlin in the third article discusses the ever doubtful question of the status of gold since 1873. To the many who say that it has risen, the article shows a few of the complications which have to be considered, as whether prices have not varied and gold remained the same; whether silver has not changed its ratio. Perhaps the most correct statement of the case is that all these forces have had an influence and that the proportion which each has taken in the struggle is practically beyond calculation. The article puts the facts before its readers in a clear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Quarterly Journal of Economics. | 4/22/1887 | See Source »

...subject that may in the future become one of the great college questions. It is well worth the reading, for though the subject that caused its publication has little interest to us, yet the question therein shown in so clear a light concerns us as nearly as it ever can Dickinson College. To put the matter in its plainest light it is this: A student finds himself in difficulty, a difficulty which has nothing to do with his studies. The faculty take up the case and try to inform themselves accurately as to the student's position, in order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/20/1887 | See Source »

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