Word: manning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made no reply. The alleged offer would constitute so serious an offence against good morals and college discipline that we regret that Mr. Ammerman has not seen fit to be more explicit. It seems likely that Mr. Ammerman has been imposed upon. It is extremely improbable that any "Harvard man" would have had the temerity to offer him a scholarship in the Law School. These scholarships-eight in number-are assigned in October, and are given only to those who have been a year in residence and have passed with credit the annual examinations in June preceding...
...offer, of money to any person to play upon the Harvard teams this year. Employment has in a case or two been secured for men of moderate means by those interested in them. And there was in 1888-89 the instance, referred to above, in which an athletic man, not then a member of any team, borrowed a sum of money for college expenses from a fellow-student. There were, further, a few cases in which the full board of members of teams have been paid at training tables, during the period of training. This practice, however, has been stopped...
DEAR SIR.- Last summer I went with a nine to England. There were two other Harvard men, three Yale men and one Princeton man. Our expenses were paid, including an allowance for incidentals. With this exception I have never received money or other emolument for engaging in athletics. Yours, etc., D. S. DEAN...
...them to consider that you and your friends who went to England at the expense of our firm are Professionals, is just about the same as to consider that every College Club player who travels at the expense of his club is a Professional, and that every rowing man whose expenses for training are paid by his college is a Professional also...
...link between the Old Testament and the New. There is the same message at the close of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New. "I am the culmination of the prophets" He looks at the future, not last, but first; he holds the door open. Every man in his little way stands between the past and the future, the old and the new. In the life here a man has the advantages and collected thought of the past systematized for his use, and in the face of this beneficence he feels humble. His hope that he may deserve...