Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Earned runs, New Bedford 4; Passed balls, Delano 15; Winsor 4; O'Connor 1. Wild pitches, Folsom 4. Struck out, Harvard 13; New Bedford...
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...value of graduating honours at present is that there is a general interest as to who obtains them; there will be much less interest taken in a list embracing a large proportion of the class, - it will rouse as much excitement as the list of Bachelors of Arts. Our Harvard honours will become much like those of a certain college, one of whose alumni, on being asked if he graduated with honours, said with a shrug, "O yes; half my class...
...cannot be rewarded; if they were, rewards would lose all their worth. Half the essence of a prize is the distinction from others it conveys. By lowering the standard of the requirements for honours, we decrease the value of those prizes, and the hitherto highly valued graduation honours of Harvard College will soon degenerate to the level of the numerous prizes lavished among the classes of small-sized colleges...