Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present rules it now will become the permanent property of Harvard. Mr. Smith quoted from the letter of one of the original donors of the cup, who said, that the cup was given as a perpetual challenge, and was not intended to become the property of any one college, except on the dissolution of the inter-collegiate league. He further stated that the executive committee of the league had no right to pass rules that it should be given to any college. And under the existing circumstances he recommended that a new cup should be awarded to Harvard...
...contrast between a Yale, a Princeton eleven and a Harvard eleven more marked than in the manner in which the runner with the ball is protected and supported by other members of the team. Harvard must learn to do this if she wishes to be at any position except third in the foot-ball association. Fletcher's playing as quarter-back was noticeable, and the rushing and tackling of Holden was fine...
...geography the classes are larger than ever before, and an advanced course is to be given in botany by Professor Goodale. Nevertheless, the classics still remain the most popular courses. Six courses in Latin and four in Greek are provided, all of which are called for by the students, except one advanced Greek course., A new course in Greek archaeology has been added to the curriculum; also a course of biblical study in the New Testament under Dr. Thayer of the divinity school...
...seniors or students are obliged to have tickets to the different exercises except where they go by classes...
Little can be said about the work of the crew as a whole, except that they are rowing precisely the same stroke which succeeded so well last year, and which they have been practicing all this spring. Since leaving Cambridge, however, the men have become rather steadier, and have become more shaken together. There is not so much splashing, and the men get their work in better from their stretchers...