Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...doubt that the bull-dozing policy pursued during the game affected the result," which is contradicted in the same sentence by the assertion that "no one. . . . can attribute the disastrous result to these causes." In the item column we are sarcastically told " the thanks of the College are due Harvard for the gentlemanly manner" in which the Freshman nine was treated. Any man who was present at the Freshman match, and heard the hearty applause with which good plays on either side were received, knows how entirely untrue any charge of bullying is. We do think that it is hardly...
...fine. With such a game before us, and the prospect of ten days' more practice, we have every reason to be encouraged. There is but one thing more wanted to increase the chances of success; that is, that the Nine should have the bodily support of a number of Harvard men at the next Yale game. Every one should consider that his presence at or absence from New Haven on the 24th will affect the result of the game to a considerable extent. Each man who cares to see Harvard victorious should make a point of helping...
...HARVARD TWENTY YEARS HENCE.Scene : roof of the Chapel. Time : midnight, June 20, 1898. (The spirit of the present and the spirit of the future sit conversing in the moonlight...
WITHOUT wishing to revive the discussion as to what the seal of Harvard College should be, we desire to point out an abuse which has lately been made of it. The publisher of "Harvard and its Surroundings" has been so much encouraged by the merited success of his labors, that he has perhaps got to considering the book as a sort of official publication. At any rate, he has used the College Seal on all his advertisements. We have strong doubts whether he does so by permission of the Faculty; as even the respectable Advocate's request to be allowed...
...ought to have books that a scholar will need, whatever line of study he may be pursuing. The works of Abu-1-Fazl and Mirza-Shafi, and the Arabic grammar of Muhammad bin Daud may not be of interest to the man of "general culture," - a phenomenon of which Harvard College, it is gratifying to know, is growing suspicious, - but they will certainly prove useful to the student of Turkish literature, and will be valuable to a scholar who intends travelling in the East...