Word: holding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University is as good, if not better, than usual at this time of the year. Although there has been much diptheria throughout this section of the country, no case has yet arisen among the students. In order to reduce the possibilities of the disease obtaining a foot-hold here, arrangements have been made for examining all sore throats that are at all suspicious, at the expense of the University...
...pass the best entrance examination for the academic and scientific departments respectively. This plan cannot fail to be of great benefit both to this preparatory school and to the University. The club will give up its annual banquet, believing that little actual benefit is afforded through it, and will hold, later in the year, a joint Andover-Exeter reunion, thus keeping alive among the students an interest in their preparatory school. This new precedent inaugurated by the Andover Club will, in all probability, have the effect of similar prizes being established by other school clubs here...
Freshman Crew.The first two freshman crews rowed about 500 strokes yesterday. The men did not seem to hold out well owing, probably, to the unusually hard work of the day before. The two new candidates have not progressed far enough in learning the stroke to make it possible to say anything with regard to their ability...
...Economy Club of Cambridge will hold a public meeting on March 4, at which Professor A. B. Hart will deliver an address on "American Political Inventions...
...last twenty-five. Andover was originally a Harvard school exclusively, but has for a long time been primarily a Yale school. It has at times been impossible to fit for Harvard at Andover, but now there is every opportunity for such preparation there and Harvard is rapidly regaining its hold. Recently Principal Bancroft said that there will be more boys coming from Andover next year than this year, and the indications are that in 1896 there will be as many coming to Harvard as will go to Yale...