Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PROFESSOR PALMER will read Books IX. and X. of the Odyssey at Harvard Hall, beginning Wednesday evening, November...
This Association shall be known as the Harvard Athletic Association...
...wish to say a few words more about the "Arion Quartette." The facts on the other side have been produced in the Advocate, and it seems well that we should produce ours. The Quartette in question stated, on their earlier programmes, that they were the "best musical talent" of Harvard College, and called themselves the "Harvard Arion Quartette." These were the facts on which we wrote our last editorial about the Quartette. What we did not state, and what we did not then know, was that they afterwards changed their name to "The Arion Quartette of Harvard College." These facts...
...have done very well by itself. Its author rejoices "in once more looking forward to a good foot-ball season," for the Courant's "love of sport overcomes any sentimental considerations," that is, any desire to play with elevens. He then criticises severely the action of one of the Harvard delegates, and ends by complaining that the Crimson drew its "account of the convention from partisan sources," that is, from a Harvard man, as if it would have been more natural to ask one of the gentlemen from Yale to act as our reporter! All this, however, does not exceed...
...different colleges of this country are now holding their athletic sports, but as yet no remarkable times have been made. We shall publish, at the end of this year, a comparative table of the times at all the American colleges, and we hope to see Harvard stand very high on the list. No college in America has the facilities for athletic sports of all kinds that we have, and that better time is not made at our meetings is simply disgraceful. However, better things may be in store for us in the future...