Word: givings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...varsity baseball candidates have now been practicing in the cage for about two weeks. The squad at the present time is so large that in order to give each man a fair trial it has been divided into two sections which practice on alternate days. So far the work in the cage consists of fielding grounders, sliding and base-running, followed by a short run and dumb bell exercise in the Gymnasium. As soon as the squd is reduced to a convenient size, the men will have a little practice in batting...
Entries to these events will close on January 30 with John Graham, B. A. A. Harvard men may give their entries to Mr. Lathrop...
...department of the University has done so much to give Harvard its high standing as a University as the Graduate School has done. Its development as the "Graduate Department" before the year 1890-91 and since then as a separate school under that Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has of course been intimately connected with the growth, especially in resources, of the other two departments under the Faculty,- the College and the Scientific School. The Graduate School, however, has had a development in administration which has been its own and to which its present important position in the University...
...Physicians and Surgeons, and other like institutions. The change will be put into operation beginning with September, 1896. The subject of making uniform entrance examinations for the Eastern colleges, is an important one and its revival has aroused much interest. A further possible development of the plan would give an entrance certificate admitting power at any one of the leading colleges, could satisfactory uniformity of examinations and marking be agreed upon and put into effect...
Lectures on Literature.During the year 1895-96, Mr. Copeland will give a number of lectures on English literature, of which the subjects and the dates will be announced in the University Calendar. The chief object of these lectures is to stimulate interest in literature, and particularly to encourage critical discussion of such matters of literary consequence as may from time to time arise. A secondary object is to suggest lines of reading to such members of the University as desire some knowledge of English Literature without the minute study demanded by the regular courses of instruction...