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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...made with coxswains as without, it was proper to allow those who thought they could make better time without coxswains to do so. All boats, we think, should be on the same footing, and the considerations in favor of coxswains are many besides that of time, which, in fact, is of small consequence any way in an amateur race. The motion, it was thought by Harvard, would certainly be lost in a Convention which had just voted in favor of coxswains, and consequently was not strenuously opposed. On the vote, Columbia voted ay, which divided the house; and the President...
...elected a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, and in 1834 was brought into the most intimate relations with Alma Mater by being chosen one of the Corporation, - a board which, although both in law and fact it is the College more truly than either the Faculty or the Overseers, rarely gets credit among the undergraduates or the community for the power and wisdom shown in its direct authority or its general influence. Dr. Walker's services as a Fellow of the College terminated only after a service of twenty-four years; and his devoted affection...
There is, besides, another fact, which has not yet been generally known, and which probably led to this provisional prohibition, namely, that numerous letters have been received from graduates of the College protesting very strongly against allowing students to appear in public at all. This is one of those matters in which there is generally a great difference of opinion between graduates and students; in fact, fairs and private theatricals where gentlemen and ladies appear in public for money, however charitable their intentions may be, are beginning to be discountenanced. When a man has been a few years...
...former is to all intents and purposes absent. If the course is history, and the family name of some nobleman is given which without doubt is very necessary to a clear understanding of English politics, he is too absorbed in his writing to hear it, and thus that important fact is lost...
...Boating-Men met, as you know, at Omaha last winter, and decided to hold the next regatta at Detroit, on July 25; moreover, Harvard was granted permission henceforth to choose material for her University crews from the association of colored waiters at Memorial Hall, in consideration of the fact that members of the Law School have always been excluded from rowing on the 'Varsity. As soon as the Convention adjourned our delegates hastened back to Cambridge, and at their recommendation the colored waiters were set to work, between meals, in the Gymnasium. At the spring races they entered a crew...