Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: An official notice, posted upon the bulletin board in Memorial Hall, states that board at the rate of $4.58 per week will be charged on the second term bill. The monthly reports have given $4.28 as the price of board per week for January, $4.68 per week for February, and now in order to make up the average of $4.58 per week for the three months, it would seem that the estimate for March must be $4.78 per week. It was officially announced that the increase in the price of board for February...
...total averages in the contest for the HERALD prize for general excellence are as follows: Morison, 22 1/2; Bachelder, 20; Denniston, 19 1/2. The events still to be contested are the running high jump, horizontal bar and flying rings...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Will the time never come when boxing shall be omitted from the winter meetings? Cannot something be done to hasten this desirable time? As a recreation, or as a means of exercise, it is heartily to be commended to any who enjoy it, but when two persons are pitted against each other, before an audience of gentlemen, until one of them is so far hurt that he cannot hit as hard as his antagonist, and is consequently knocked about at pleasure, it seems as if it were carrying things too far. While there can be no possible...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I wish to suggest through your columns that the managers of the Athletic Association take some action to prevent crowding at the opening of the doors at the next meeting. Half an hour is not time enough for nearly two thousand persons to pass through a small gate and seat themselves in the hall. If at the next meeting there are as many present as there were at the last - probably there will be more - it will be very inconvenient, if not almost impossible, for a gentleman with ladies to get into the hall unless some change...
...success, we do not expect that much importance will be attached to our athletic enterprises. It seems probable, however, that the points of difference in student customs between a large Western university like Michigan and a large Eastern one like Harvard would prove entertaining to the readers of the HERALD...