Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...report that a daily newspaper, to be called the Harvard Echo, will soon be started, is not wholly without foundation. Six Sophomores intend, if they can get enough advertisements to cover all expenses, to establish a daily paper. The paper, however, is not to be a money-making advertising medium, but merely a literary enterprise...
...members of the Annex were fitted for college at Vassar, Smith College, the high schools in Newton, Somerville, Waltham, Beverly, and Brookline; Packer Institute, Bradford Academy, and Miss Hubbard's School in Boston. A few were prepared by aid of the Harvard Examinations for Women, and of the Society for the Encouragement of Studies at Home...
...Yale crew hope to beat Harvard next year by a new stroke, which is pronounced by some who have seen it to be the first practical stroke Yale has ever adopted. The old hang at the end of the stroke is abolished, and several crooked little points are also done away with. In the new stroke, the reach is shorter than heretofore, to insure a strong and steady grip of the water, and to save the additional exertion formerly used in putting the blade back. In feathering, the blade will be horizontal instead of at an angle of forty-five...
ATTENTION is called to the advertisement of Dr. Tourjee's Conservatory of Music on page vii. This establishment is well adapted to meet the musical wants of Harvard...
...clergymen," says a writer in the Watchman, "have been agitating theatre reform. There seems to be need of it. The lowest play ever put before the American public has been acted in Boston for a week or two past, and, if all the reports are true, the students from Harvard College have formed no inconsiderable part of the audience. . . . If there is not discipline enough in the College to keep the students in their rooms, the parents of the young men ought to know that they are out, and govern themselves accordingly." We are used to the misrepresentations of Harvard...