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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Announcement is made in the calendar for next week of a very interesting college conference meeting. At the request of the students in charge of the college conferences the members of the Athletic Committee will undertake to explain to those who are interested in the subject - which means the whole University - the constitution, powers and objects of the Committee. In the college at large there has long existed a desire for some definite knowledge about the workings of the Athletic Committee. During the past two years there has been a steadily growing feeling that the Committee is doing a great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/5/1891 | See Source »

...three great questions "Is there a God, a soul, a future life," he without doubting speaks to the soul and says "He that has seen me has seen the Father," and dying told his disciples that He went to prepare a place for them. I can't explain why out Christ crucified does save sinners. Christ is at once our teacher and example. Let us receive Him as our personal deliverer and put our trust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 11/23/1891 | See Source »

...series of notes run through the book and explain such difficult passages as are necessary to a clear understanding of the poem's meaning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Norton's Translation of Dante. | 11/18/1891 | See Source »

...basis he makes out his marks. The student generally finds this out for himself at the end of the year, but it would be much more satisfactory if the instructor would tell him at the beginning. At the end of the year a student frequently troubles an instructor to explain his mark. "Oh," says the instructor, "I mark at least fifty per cent, on work done in the class room. You wrote a good paper, but your daily work brought you down." The student turns from him to another instructor. This one says: "Well, I do not keep account...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/3/1891 | See Source »

...exact relations which exist between the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports and the students. Yet these relations are so important and so grossly misunderstood by the majority of the students that we earnestly hope that some faculty member of Harvard's much abused athletic committee may explain in some way to the great body of the students exactly the province of the athletic committee. It is a matter of vital importance to our athletic interests that such an explanation should be made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/2/1891 | See Source »

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