Word: extended
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...considerable and commendable activity in getting the members together, arranging meets, etc., but the members of the club fail to respond, and the meets are poorly attended. Let us hope that more active interest will be shown in this matter, and that the far-famed Harvard indifference may not extend its blighting influence to this branch of our athletic sports...
...different claimants have appeared for the same ground, and in other instances there have been disputes in regard to presumed encroachments by tennis players on the cricket and la crosse fields. The man "Tom," who lays out the courts, seems to have become a self-constituted authority, whose interests extend little beyond his white-wash bucket, and getting the money for his work. The popularity of tennis this spring seems to be on the increase, and numerous claims have been made on the ground available for courts, so that our fields are now closely scored. The distribution of these courts...
...course of instruction is more complete and thorough and more distinctly graded than in any other university in the country. Beginning with anatomy, the course ends in the third and fourth years with more abstruse subjects. The fourth year is still voluntary, but an effort is being made to extend the regular course. The school and the faculty have now all they can do, and are doing all that the community can ask of them; and all that they are doing is directly in the line of raising the standard of medical education and educating students to be good physicians...
...House has voted in opposition to the bill to extend the charter of national banks...
...shall be to superintend the work of the school and its members and to make an annual report thereon to the committee. There will be no prescribed course of study for members, excepting the presentation of four theses annually upon work done during the year. The course shall extend to three years. For the present, members are to be chosen and sent by the various cooperating colleges as they see fit. It is expected that there will be eight or ten pupils at the school next year, and among them possibly a graduate from Harvard. One student, at least, will...