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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hellenic Congress met Monday in the Atlanta Exposition grounds. The object of the meeting was the formation of a federation of all Greek letter fraternities. About thirty fraternities were represented. Isaac S. Hopkins, president of Georgia Institute of Technology, delivered the oration...
...short time ago we alluded to a letter in a recent number of London Field making sweeping and absurd charges against the amateur standing of American university athletes. We did not attempt any refutation of the charges because no intelligent American reader would have needed it to convince him of the utter ignorance of the Field's correspondent as to the way athletics are regulated in American Universities. We are very glad to find, however, that Mr. J. L. Coolidge '95 of the Mott Haven Team has written a letter to the Field, in reply to the member...
...corespondent which has been going on in the columns of the Nation with reference to the American use of the word "college" has given occasion for some very interesting quotations from the Harvard archives. In a letter which appears, in the current number, Mr. W. G. Brown of the University Library rejects the assertion that the word "College" as applied to a single building in the early records, was a dialectal use which sprang up in America. He quotes two items from an old inventory of the college property, dated twenty years after the founding. They refer...
...property owners witnessed the performance and the fact that there has been no complaint made, ought fully to prove that no such ill-feeling exists. Indeed, we cannot imagine why any one should try to degrade the sport on grounds as unfounded as those mentioned in the letter to the CRIMSON...
...clock a business meeting was held, the main business being the consideration of a letter from Mr. W. C. Sabine af Harvard College, asking the advice of the association on the proposed changes in the Harvard entrance conditions in physics. The matter was finally referred to a committee of five, to be appointed by the president. The proposed changes will be in the direction of making the conditions more flexible, and better adapted to the needs of students doing home laboratory work. Two new members were elected. Messrs Holden of Charlestown and Hartwell of Fitchburg...