Word: lates
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Princeton, Yale and Harvard to abolish the customary banquet after the debate and leave the entertainment of the judges and the visiting team to the discretion of those managing the debates at each college. The banquets have never been successful since they are necessarily held at a very late hour. The judges are tired, and the defeated team is in no mood for enjoyment, while the winners are under constant restraint to keep their satisfaction from adding to the discomfiture of their opponents. The new arrangement bids fair to be both more graceful and more satisfactory to everybody. Another important...
...Senior and Junior elevens are about equal in strength. Both have a fairly effective interference and as a rule play aggressively. Their chief fault seems to be carelessness, which shows itself frequently in fumbling and offside play. The Freshmen have improved very rapidly of late, and ought to give a good account of themselves. The Sophomore team is composed wholly of new material, and is consequently weak...
...advanced students sin literature, the opening of the Warren House will be of immense advantage, partly through its convenient location at 12 Quincy street, but mainly through its well-selected departmental libraries. The house itself was generously given by the late Henry C. Warren '76 for the use of the Modern Languages Department. Upon its ground floor have been placed the Child Memorial Library, and the libraries of the French, the German and the Romance Language departments. Other rooms in the house are used for some of the smaller advanced courses in literature, and the large room upstairs is available...
...books on general literature and by the books required for reading in the courses on the several periods of English literature. With the exception of the Classical Library this collection is the only one with a special fund of its own to depend upon. Friends and students of the late Professor Child Subscribed a sum, which has a present income...
...fulfillment of the terms of the will of the late Edward Austin, the President and Fellows of Harvard College have voted that, until they shall give further orders, $2,000 shall be assigned yearly from the income of his bequest of $500,000 to establish eight scholarship, each with an annual value of $250, to be awarded for one year to superintendents of schools, and to teachers in secondary schools and in colleges, who have been recently in service and intend to return to service. These scholarships are available for the academic year 1899-1900. Applications therefor should be made...