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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Several men have written to the CRIMSON office to find out if the prize offered by Mr. John C. Ropes for an historical essay upon "The Causes of the Russian War of 1812," was open for competition to all members of the University. No more information could be obtained at the office than was given in the former notice. The original notice, however, stated that the essays might be "prepared by any candidate for a degree in Harvard University...
During some of the worst weather of last week the men who were arranging for the addresses of Messers. Storey and Dana in Sanders Theatre on Tuesday night, tacked the advertisement of the meeting on several of the college bulletin boards. Imagine their surprise and indignation to find, not two days later, that some of their placards had been torn down and others for an event outside college interests substituted. If this were the first time such a thing occurred, it might pass, but it frequently happens that placards are removed before the date of the event which they advertise...
...wish to see athletics have just their due share of attention,- no more and no less. Now such students will heartily support any program of reform that recommends itself to their good sense, and it is just in this respect that the program which President Eliot maps out will find itself weak. However sensible the rest of the report may be, there are certainly some few things in it which will strike the great body of students as altogether too radical. The legislation proposed will strike the mind of the average student as antagonistic rather than sympathetic. We feel that...
...heartily commend the meeting in Sanders Theatre tonight to the attention of the students. It is certainly a cause which ought to find warm support from Harvard students...
...should not be an indispensable condition to interest in the memorial. Secretary Bolles had influence, not only because of his personality, but because he expressed a spirit which ought to be typical of college men. To him, it was deplorable that any student who wished a college course should find a barrier in a lack of funds, and, as far as it was in his power, he broke down the barrier...