Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prize, as we mentioned some time ago, which has been offered by the base-ball association. This will be of no little value and well worth working for. Moreover, class nines are to be organized this spring to contest for a class championship and a pennant. Men who come forward now and try for the second university nine, will be in good trim for work on these class nines when they come into the field a little later. So men working for this second nine will be helping both the university and their own class nine,-in reality, killing...
...plan. A body made up of members of the faculty and students, governed by rules growing out of the report decided on by the preliminary conference, will afford a proper medium whereby a scheme of government of student interests, that will mean something, can be proposed, discussed, and pushed forward. Viewed in this light, the work of the temporary conference is a short step in the right direction Whether this step is the first of a series, depends greatly on the students. The way to gain power, is to show ourselves capable of exercising it. A more intimate...
...above all others, marks the primitive stage in the evolution of Harvard toward the desired end. Bachelors of Arts need no longer know Greek, but they are still obliged to be present at prayers 576 times, in order to obtain the coveted degree. Is the university, after all, moving forward...
...true that eighty-eight made a good showing at the field meetings of last fall, and that the number of its men at present working with the candidates for the Mott Haven team is gratifying; yet the college is justified in expecting each freshman class to come forward and contribute its share towards making a success of the gymnasium meeting, and this eighty-eight has not done. It must be that the old-time spirit of bashfulness still exists among our freshmen,-that they shrink from making any athletic efforts in public. Or, perhaps, many are deterred from competing...
...larger part of the subscriptions desired; and we shall be still more pleased to hear, in a short time, that the entire number has been obtained, and that the bi-weekly journal of Harvard is again upon a sound financial basis. Our students do not, it is true, step forward with any too much readiness to support the college papers, but when once the true nature of the case is put before them, we do not have to appeal in vain. Indifference holds them back, not a disregard for the success of our journalistic enterprises...