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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seniors and students are obliged to have tickets to the different exercises except where they go by classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD UNIVERSITY CALENDAR. | 6/16/1883 | See Source »

...lively cordiality, which might be expected of college classmates coming together after years of separation to renew their friendships and recall the scenes and associations of their youth. There was no rowdyism or gross misconduct at these gatherings, and the effect of the punch has rarely been made manifest, except now and then, in the case of some newly-made Bachelor of Arts, who in that youthful exuberance incident to his acquiring a sheepskin, lost control of his appetite and his legs Such exhibitions have been exceedingly rare, however, and they have been frowned upon as often as they have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENCEMENT PUNCH. | 6/13/1883 | See Source »

...championship base-ball series was begun by the class of '69. Harvard, '71 and '76, each won the one game played, '77 and '79 won two out of three, '78, '80 and '81 each won one out of three games played. The Yale freshmen have won all the games except those mentioned and Saturday's game. The university score now stands 21 to 17, in favor of Harvard, the freshman score 24 to 10, in Yale's favor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/12/1883 | See Source »

EDITORS HARVARD HERALD. I wish to add one more complaint to the numerous ones which have been directed against the examinations. The examination in Political Economy 2 was fair in every respect except one. There was one question asked in which the writers of the thesis on that particular question (a thesis is written during the year on topics given out by the instructor) certainly had a decided advantage over the other members of the class. These last few unfortunates were supposed to glean as much knowledge from the reading of parts of the various theses, as days of research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/11/1883 | See Source »

...been the effect of the measures adopted by the Tennis Association to abolish the "shacker" nuisance. It is true that there has been no attempt to make and enforce any rule. The simple request that a certain regulated scale of fees be adopted, and that no boys be employed except when found at certain specified stations, seems to have had the desired result. Not only have the numbers of idle small boys who used to infest every part of the college grounds greatly diminished, but those that have remained seem to have acquired a strangely altered tone of civility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/7/1883 | See Source »

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