Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...GODDARD will leave for his quarters on Lake Quinsigamond to-morrow, in order to have a week's practice over his course before the race. The contest into which he is about to enter with Mr. Livingstone is in no point of view an intercollegiate race between Harvard and Yale; it is strictly a private match. But as each of the contestants holds the single-scull championship of his college, deep interest will be felt in the result. We hope that all members of the University realize how important a place this race will hold in Harvard's boating annals...
...further abolition of prescribed studies in the Sophomore and Junior years shows that the Faculty are steadily and surely moving forward to a purely elective system, which will make Harvard a real University. The steps taken towards this system have now proceeded so far, that to go on is an absolute necessity. But in order that there may be no need of taking any steps backward, the Faculty wisely "make haste slowly" in their reform. For this reason we have no fault to find that all the courses for the Freshman year are still prescribed. The reform will reach this...
...open events (Nos. 2, 6, and 9 of the above) are open to graduates; to members of the Tufts and Harvard Athletic Associations; to the Union Boat Club, and to the Young Men's Christian Union, of Boston...
...intention of the Harvard Club of New York to test the question whether graduates non-residents of Massachusetts are eligible to membership in the Board of Overseers, touches a subject of interest to all connected with the University. It appears that this is not the first time that this question has been discussed. In 1873, when ex-President Hill, who was then an Overseer, thought of removing to Maine, it was his opinion that inhabitancy in Maine would not render him ineligible; but the Board of Overseers, acting in accordance with the advice of Messrs. E. R. Hoar...
From these conclusions the Harvard Club most decidedly dissents, and maintains, on the other hand, that there is no legal prohibition to prevent any graduate, in whatever State he claims a home, from becoming an Overseer. Furthermore, that since, of the thirty Overseers, some twenty live within sight of the State House in Boston, the obvious tendency of the Board in future is to the character of a close corporation, whereas it was clearly the design of the Act of 1865 to withdraw the College entirely from connection with the State and from local opinion...