Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Philippians offers a prize of 25 dollars to the man that plays the best general game on the Andover nine this year...
...examination papers will present three or four disputed questions of sufficiently varied and general interest to enable each student to treat one of them. Accompanying each topic will be a syllabus of the evidence, pro and con, upon which the controversy rests; and from this syllabus a brief must be constructed and an argument elaborated to sustain the proposition and meet the objections presented...
HARVARD SHOOTING CLUB.- The team competition will be held at Watertown today. Competitors will come prepared to shoot at 50 birds. Scores made in this competition will count towards the aggregate for the general excellence cup. Car leaves...
...more general conclusions that athletics are diverting the students from the object for which they are sent to college, I think, in order not to give an unfair picture, it should be stated that side by side with the increase in athletics, there has been a marked increase in the intellectual activity of the students. Formerly 33 per cent. was the minimum required in each course for a degree, I believe. Now the minimum is 40 per cent., and in addition to that, the student must stand above 65 per cent. in at least one-quarter of his studies...
...other words the Board of Overseers wish to put such restrictions upon us as practically to do away with all contests with outsiders. They think they have found the best way to accomplish this; but if they think that such a scheme will promote the cause of general athletics and materially lessen the evils which they imagine arise from intercollegiate contests, we venture to say they will find they are mistaken. It they wish to reduce Harvard University to the level of a boarding school and treat the students as mere striplings, well and good; but we are inclined...