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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fail to see how the article we reviewed was in any way in opposition to our editorial. The article only stated truthfully the position of Harvard which we, in that former editorial, said outsiders never took the trouble to understand. Morover, we also said concerning our withdrawal from the league, "the good results of it all are now evident in the thoroughly amateur and college-like game which is played this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/20/1890 | See Source »

...reputation for more substantial than athletic reputation. The encouragement to hard work and unflinching purpose, as well as the assurance from such a source, that the cause in which their efforts are expended neither is nor ought to be despised by the best men in the country, will not fail to strengthen the proper spirit of athletics in our college. We are very sure that their reception was not given in the spirit of mere excitement over an unexpected victory, but in the way of showing their deep respect to hard work as soon as its results have become apparent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/16/1890 | See Source »

...concerning the lack of a sufficient number of tickets for the Harvard side of the field next Saturday. Complaints come in from all sides that men can get no tickets. It is very unfortunate, but we do not see that there is not enough room at Hampden Park. We fail to see any lack of judgment on the part of the Harvard management; for, certainly no one would suspect that more than about eighteen hundred tickets would be sold in Cambridge. It was necessary to have tickets for sale at New York, at Boston, and at Springfield, for our graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/20/1890 | See Source »

Last evening Professor Royce, in his course on Modern Thinkers, spoke of Schopenhaner. This philosopher's doctrine is often wholly misunderstood even by his followers; his opponents especially fail to conceive its dignity. The right opinion is to judge the world as tragic, and we should not try to refute Schopenhauer, but grapple with the tragedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Royce's Lecture. | 11/20/1890 | See Source »

Tonight Professor C. C. Everett, D. D., will be the lecturer at the College Conference, his subject being "The Bible and the Sacred Books of the East." Professor Everett, as Bussey professor of Divinity, has made himself an authority on Biblical subjects, so that his lecture cannot fail to be of importance and value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Conference. | 11/18/1890 | See Source »

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