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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last evening to represent Harvard in the coming debate with Princeton. They have been chosen to a position of much honor, but of honor tempered with a heavy responsibility. It is for them to maintain unbroken Harvard's list of victories in debate, and they are not likely to find this an easy task. At Yale, interest in debating has only of late years seen a revival; but at Princeton this is not the case. Ever since the debating league between Harvard and Yale was started. Princeton has been eager to become a member of it. Her two debating societies...
...Allow me to thank you for your manly editorial in the Post on Saturday. No one likes to find fault with the alumni association of his college, but to turn a social gathering into an endorsement of an athlete without the slightest pretence of investigating the charges against him for the last three years, which, whether they have any foundation or not, are made by so many disinterested persons that they can not be met by a general denial, however vociferous, is, to say the least, a perversion of the object of a college dinner. You deserve the thanks...
...think you will find that a majority of Yale men will agree with you, although they may keep quiet and do a good deal of thinking...
...delay in getting the chess cup has been caused partly by the necessity of executing satisfactory bonds for its safe return, but chiefly by the difficulty of finding a suitable place for its exhibition. We have been unable to find a place that is both public and reasonably secure, but have finally decided, with the consent of the authorities, to put the cup in the Art Room of the Library. It will be there in a few days...
...delivering books goes on with regularity, and the volume of work done steadily increases. Much of it is done, however, under great disadvantages, as has been repeatedly pointed out in these reports. The shelves of the present building have become so crowded, that last spring it proved impossible to find room for the accessions without removing from Gore Hall a large number of the old books. Accordingly 15,000 volumes were boxed and piled up in the cellar of Appleton Chapel, - a humiliating expedient to which the Librarian was simply forced to resort. The same thing will soon have...