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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...next contest is to be held in New York City, January 4, 1876, the only requirement made of colleges seeking admission to the Association being their ratification of its constitution...
...MEETING of the Freshman Class was held in Holden Chapel on Wednesday to vote on the question of sending a crew to the intercollegiate regatta. A vote was taken, which resulted in favor of sending a crew. Mr. Otis, of the Scientific School advocated the plan, and, after the vote, expressed his pleasure at the result. A subscription was immediately begun, and the sum of $480 was raised in the hall...
...colleges and their salutary restraint on the ebullitions of undergraduate boyishness. The particulars of the evening of the literary contest have been read by the interested or curious, and indicate a thoroughly American institution. It is nearly a year since the preliminary meeting of the "Intercollegiate Literary Association" was held in Hartford, and before any due discussion was had on the advisability of literary contests, steps were taken to inaugurate them. Harvard, in common with many other colleges, considering the final and all important question to be the purpose rather than the practicability of these contests, naturally refused to send...
...between Oxford and Cambridge. Such a comparison is simply so premature, that our grandchildren will probably be able to laugh at it with us. As to the immediate future of this "Literary Association," we learn that the field of contest is at once to be widened. At the convention held last week it was decided to hold competitive examinations in Greek and Mathematics, and for this purpose the following resolutions were adopted...
First. The examinations shall be held in only two departments, classics and mathematics...