Word: harvardism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thousand. In the district of Cambridge in which the college buildings are situated, the death rate is only about nine in one thousand for all ages, no higher than the death rate for the most favored ages in the state at large. Thus it will be seen that Harvard college is in a peculiarly healthy position. It is impossible to ascertain exactly what the mortality of the students is in any given year, for when a man falls sick he leaves college, and the authorities may never know whether he recovers or dies. But it is safe to assert from...
Pach Bros., photographer for Harvard have on exhibition some elegant large photographs just the thing for Christmas They are also getting up a new size which will be called the Harvard Panel a good sized head mounted on 11x14 card for framing or on a gilt beveled edged card 7x10. We propose making this size for $3.00, regular price $6.00. This is for Xmas and only to Harvard men. PACH BROS...
...number of editorials are devoted to the result of the mass-meeting of the 20th of last month. Considering the rotten condition of college athletics the action of Harvard in withdrawing from the Intercollegiate Foot Ball association was not untimely, and if her motives are pure, she deserves great praise. The Advocate fears, however, that the students were influenced just as much by pique at a college which has just defeated Harvard as by any desire for purity in athletics. In regard to the withdrawal from the league, Harvard's position is "frank and honorable." The resolution to withdraw...
...last two editorials touch the Springfield game and the freshman game. Harvard, although not victorious at Springfield, has had an excellent eleven; the men have all worked hard and faithfully, and deserve the gratitude of the college. The freshman elevens have of late years defeated Yale, and this fact must influence 'varsity teams very soon...
Under the head of "Topics of the Day," the new gate is discussed. According to the writer, "the new gate is the embodiment of the idea that Harvard is not in every way public property." The imitation in architecture is, however, no cause for pride and not worthy architecture. "How I happened to come to Harvard" tells how a man out west suddenly made up his mind to go to Harvard...