Word: maye
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard undergraduates have shown, during the last few weeks, that they have the real welfare of Harvard athletics at heart, and that they understand the best way in which the standard of athletics may be raised. A few weeks ago it was announced that a cup had been offered by Harvard men to be competed for by the different schools belonging to a proposed interscholastic athletic association. One athletic meeting is to be held a year, and the games are to be of the usual nature of the annual intercollegiate contest...
Keys to the Evans Library may now be obtained by members of History...
There is a balance of $1400 in the treasury of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association. It has been decided to hold the annual games the last Saturday in May...
...resolutions of the Board of Overseers have been adopted by the faculty with some modification and will go into effect about April 1st. The faculty doubtless have good reason for their secrecy, but the inevitable result is that many reports are now rife in the college, of which some may be true but most are probably false. Much dissatisfaction is expressed because of the delay. The matter is of such vital interest to all undergraduates that their impatience is justifiable. Nevertheless we would urge the necessity of caution in criticizing the action of the faculty. The hints dropped...
...genius to whom the favors of life come unsought who appear to be independent of this law; but the spontaneous success of their undisciplined genius are never permanent or satisfying. To possess the spirit of renunciation is the first essential of true success. When Christ spoke of fasting we may be sure he meant something broad: to fast in the true sense of renunciation does not mean merely the giving up of the evils and unnecessary pleasures of life, but even the good things. There must be a capability to sacrifice the good for the better. With renunciation must come...