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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Camp of Yale writes a long letter to the New York Times in defence of the present system of college athletics and criticising the new attempt at "reform." Mr. Camp well expresses the feeling of reaction against the extreme measures of the reformers and their more extreme views which is rapidly spreading among the general and the college public. "College athletic organizations if left to themselves," says Mr. Camp, "would soon work out their own salvation in these matters by learning by experience that a college coach is preferable to a professional, and the knowledge thus acquired is far more...
...following entry occurs under date of November 12, 1883: A letter was read from Professor Josiah P. Cooke stating that he had collected subscriptions to the amount of $7,500 towards the purchase of the largest private collection of meteorites in the world, being the collection of Professor J. Lawrence Smith, who had died since the purchase was made. The money value of these meteorites was considered to be $10,000, and Professor Smith is to be counted as a contributor of $2,000. The balance of $500 needed to complete the purchase is to be paid from Professor Cook...
...Boston letter to the Chicago Tribune gives the following bright description of Dr. Holmes and the Medical Students. It says: "The most popular man in the Cedical School is Dr. Oliver wendell Holmes, though he is no longer an active member of the faculty. The genial "autocrat" cannot stand entirely aloof from his first love, and almost every month he pays a visit to the doctor mill on the Back Bay. Some of the younger professors think that Dr. Holmes is pretty far behind the times-"an old fogy, you know" but the boys have no thought for them when...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-It seems to me, now that the feeling of the large mass of Harvard men has been so well set forth in the letter of Prof. Richards of Yale, and in yesterday's communication to your paper, that it would be only fair and just for a leading member of the Harvard faculty to let the students know the reasons that actuated the large majority of the faculty in accepting the resolutions. The faculty, I hear from a private source, almost unanimously rejected the preambles. The preambles then were not our faculty's reasons for their action...
...alumnus of the Law School, in a letter to the Advertiser, thus upbraids the alumni of that department for lack of interest in the school. He says: "You have said not a word too much in praise of the wise and sagacious gift of Dr. Calvin Ellis to the Medical School. When will the legal alumni give to the law department of the university the benefit of a personal interest, support and generosity comparable in any way to that which the medical men have shown to their professional school...