Word: goode
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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BEFORE the arrangements for Class Day have been entirely made I wish to call the attention of the Committee to one matter, which caused a good deal of complaint last year, and which many hope to see changed this year: I mean the excluding of Freshmen from the exercises around the tree. The reason given for this exclusion last year was that there was not room enough for them, but upper-classmen who were there have told me that there would have been plenty of room. It seems to me that it is very hard to prevent the Freshman class...
...game Monday was an improvement on Saturday's game, the men having in a great part recovered from the nervousness consequent upon their first experience with a professional nine. Nunn's fine base running and catching, Olmstead's good work at first base, and Cohen's stop of a hot liner, were the noticeable features of Harvard's game. It is sufficient to say of Tyng that he played as well as ever, and to see him once more in the field made us long for the Nine of '78. The following is the score...
...support during that time, should have some advantages given them in a matter of this sort over those who are just entering. But the fact probably is, that considerations of justice have probably never been thought of by the authorities. The reasons which induce the College to offer good rooms to sub-Freshmen are of course perfectly evident; the extortionate prices which are charged for rooms in the Yard make it difficult to let all of them, and so good rooms must be offered to those who enter next year, or else they will room outside. Viewed in this light...
...come to the middle class, - those who, without taking honours in a subject, or getting a part, have a fair general average. This class, say the inventors of the new scheme, will be greatly benefited; the result on this class, to the contrary, will be rather to diminish good scholarship than to increase it. Some will, undoubtedly, be incited to further exertion by having a prize put within easy reach; but a great many, who at present take hard courses, and do very fairly in them, will give up Philosophy or English, and substitute German and Natural History, in which...
...system, then, will tend in a few cases to increase good work; in many it will have no effect; in many others studying for marks and a direct decrease of true scholarship will be the result...