Word: likes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been led to expect a chance would be given to make comparison of the relative strength of Harvard and Yale, Harvard should play practically a scrub team. We have endeavored to ascertain the position of the football managers in the matter, and believe the facts to be something like this: Manager Moore arranged the game with the understanding that Harvard would put her strongest eleven in the field and announcements were made accordingly. Late Wednesday night a meeting of the coaches was held in which it was decided that it would be absolutely foolhardy to risk certain...
Lieutenant Robinson is not receiving anything like the support from the students that he had reason to expect. In 1874 when the University was comparatively small, the original Harvard Rifles had a membership at one time of 205. So far only about fifty men have joined the present company...
...cheering at the C. A. A. game last Saturday was very poor. It seemed like the poor performance of an unpleasant duty. I sincerely hope some good leaders may be appointed before Wednesday, who may lead on the 24th. Let the men appointed be athletes and perhaps the cheering will be sharper and more spontaneous...
Botanical Club.Professor Goodale spoke last evening on Public Museums of Natural History. He gave an account of our University Museum, founded by Louis Agassiz, and pointed out the lines on which Alexander Agassiz has fostered its growth. A public museum like ours has two distinct functions: First, the accumulation and utilization of materials for research; and, second, the display of selected specimens for the instruction of the public. He described the principal museums in this country and Europe, and closed by a short description of the interesting public museums in the Southern Hemisphere...
...ground floor, north entry) between 9 and 11 a. m. on Monday or between 5 and 6 p. m. on Tuesday. The committee will be prepared to receive new members and issue shingles at the same time and place. The club holds two or more public meetings each year, like the present one, besides other smaller and more informal meetings. It also subscribes for each member to Good Government, the national organ of the. civil service reform movement, collects all the available literature on civil service reform in a reserved alcove in the reading room and does much in other...