Word: free
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many years it has been Harvard's boast that she was free from hazing and rushes, but now to the disgrace of '88 and '89, the former especially, this good record of former years has been broken. We feel that we but voice the sentiment of the majority of Harvard men when we say that the performance of last night was small, contemptible, boyish and un-Harvard like in the extreme, and deserves the censure of the earnest men of all classes...
...point to be remembered with gratification is that the feeling between the three great universities,- Harvard, Yale and Princeton-is now more friendly and cordial than it has been for years past. The history of this year's struggle for the pennant between these three strong rivals is wonderfully free from the bickerings which have marked such contests in the past...
...exceptional success by the adoption of the very theory which Pres. Eliot now so earnestly advocates. If a boy's school training has been tolerably comprehensive. President Eliot thinks he should be prepared at the age of 18 to enter a university where the choice of studies is free. He holds that a boy has then passed the age when compulsory discipline is valuable, and he can no longer be driven to any useful exercise of his mind, and that he can select for himself a better course of study than any college faculty can possibly select...
...years, 9 months, 11 days. The oldest is 39 Wiggins, the valedictorian, is the youngest, being only 19 years, 7 months old. Twenty-one will graduate under 21. Seventy-two are church members. There are 76 republicans in the class, 18 democrats and 24 "mugwumps." Of these 58 are free-traders and 44 protectionists. Thirty-eight hope to study law, 14 theology, 12 medicine, 5 banking, 7 teaching and 16 business...
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