Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: It was a pleasure to see in your issue of the 3d instant an article which, on the whole, gave concisely much interesting and useful information about the "English Universities," a subject respecting which many of your readers would probably be glad to gain fuller knowledge. It would certainly tend to promote feelings at once of friendship and of a generous emulation between the leading universities of New and Old England. With your permission I would venture to suggest two or three points in which the article referred to is somewhat in error. There are twenty-three...
...seem to have been well advised. The total cash that has passed through the hands of the society in its first year amounts to $14,763.87, and the treasurer estimates that the saving to the members of the society has amounted to $4,500. This then has been the gain to the members of the society alone, through the lowering of prices, but the actual saving to students through the lowering of prices, due to the society, has been very much larger. It is sometimes argued that so long as the membership of the society is large enough to keep...
...looking over the prospects for the future it seems that the only way for lacrosse to gain a firm and permanent footing is for the freshman class to take it up, so that the 'Varsity team can have recruits from the freshman team, just as the 'Varsity crew received material from class crews. Two attempts have been made to form second lacrosse teams, but have amounted to little because such teams could be at best but quasi organizations...
...crib the ex., to gain a place...
...French instructors, in assigning the semi-annual marks took the amount of knowledge in French which a man is supposed to have at the end of the freshman year as a basis, and counting from that as zero, marked the papers according as a man showed a gain or a loss since that time...