Word: harvrd
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...today your letter of April 18, making certain inquiries as to my opinions as a candidate of the board of overseers of Harvard University. I can only say in reply that I have always believed that it would be better in every way that attendance on moring prayers at Harvrd should be voluntary; and that the question of attendance at church on Sunday is one which could be most fitly and safely entrusted to the decision of the parents or guardians of each student...
...Hurlbut, tailor, 125 Tremont street, has received his selection of spring woollens. Harvrd students are invited to make an examination...
Weclip the following from the Columbia Spectator:- Columbia is still in a broil with Princeton and Harvrd with regard to foot-ball matters. it will be remembered that Princeton and /Columbia were to have played at the Polo grounds on November 10th, and that the game was postponed until the following Monday, with the stipulation, that Columbia should have all the gate-money, after deducting the cost of Princeton's trip to New York. The game was to have been played at Princeton, but Columbia forfeited it by a non0appearance. Princeton now demands $131.14 as the sum of the expenses...
...meeting of the Union Thursday evening to discuss the interference of the Harvard faculty in athletics was one of the most interesting of the year. The question for debate read, Resolved, "That the interference of the Harvrd faculty in athletics is justifiable." On the secret ballot on the merits of the question the faculty were sustained by a vote of 35 to 21. Mr. A. G. Webster, '85, then opened the debate in the affirmative, claiming that the game of foot-ball had degenerated greatly of late, and to sustain his position quoted from a New York newspaper...