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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opponents of the consolidation are, as has been said, the principal undergraduates. Their objections seem to be sound from an undergraduate point of view. In the first place, there is doubt if a man of sufficient ability could be got to fill successfully the office of chief treasurer: and where ability was found, partiality to certain sports might make him worthless for the position. Again, supposing the man obtainable, the existence of a chief responsible in a lump for all expenditure would remove all feeling of individual responsibility from the treasurers of the different organizations, and extravagance would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Consolidation. | 2/15/1886 | See Source »

...awarded to Cornell, the nine from that college not having lost a game. Rochester was expelled from the association on the ground that its team disbanded to escape paying guarantees to visiting teams. The executive committee was given power to admit the Troy Polytechnic team to the association and fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of Rocherter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/5/1886 | See Source »

...attendance at the recent meeting of the H. T. A. L. was unusually large. J. H. Gray, '87 was elected president to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of A. H. Lloyd. A committee was appointed to engage some speakers for the public meetings in the spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/1/1886 | See Source »

FRESHMAN NINE. T. Woodbury will fill the position of captain pro. tem. during my absence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/25/1886 | See Source »

...would-be Buddhist knew nothing of either religion, and that his state of mind was purely a result of improper home-training. Yet semi-religious and multo religious papers still echo the cry of "Harvard irreligion!" Is it that our alumni are sceptics? More Harvard graduates to-day fill our prominent pulpits than the graduates of any two other colleges in the land. Is it that our teaching is purely secular? Why did we come to Harvard above all other colleges, but to get teaching that was secular, free from the eternal theological dogmas and cant which distinguish so many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Religion. | 1/20/1886 | See Source »

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