Word: maying
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...will be seen, on consulting it, that it has been decided to return to the system of class races. It seems to us that this decision of the executive committee is, on the whole, a wise one. The club system was certainly a failure, whatever the reason may have been, and any attempt to revive it would probably prove unsuccessful. It now rests with the classes to say whether the new system shall succeed, and we hope that they will at once take steps to elect captains, and put crews in training. The prize colors will be placed...
...may be safely presumed that all reform in regard to the matter of the green doors on University is hopeless, and we must gracefully submit to the blows on the face which they continually give us. But why cannot we have both the outer doors open at recitation-time? The pushing and crowding and frequent collisions which occur every hour are anything but pleasant. To be sure, those who are going in never hurry; but the numbers of those who are eager to get out keep many waiting and cause great confusion. All this inconvenience might be remedied by leaving...
...suit the requirements of college athletes. It will be seen that the Constitution provides for a large number of events which have never been introduced at Harvard, but the Committee deemed it advisable to include rules to govern all really good sports, thinking that such rules may be of service before long. As the cost of printing the Constitution has been by no means inconsiderable, it is to be hoped that every member of the Association will supply himself with a copy immediately. Those who enter for the sports in the Gymnasium will find it indispensable to do so. Copies...
...general system of eleemosynary scholarships, that, under conditions which are found in America, it is impossible to make a fair selection of those who should be encouraged to compete for them. The reasons which prevent business men from confessing their want of success, in order that their boys may try for scholarships, have already been noted. But, putting parents out of the question, it is clear that any practicable tests between minor applicants must be of the roughest and most uncertain kind. A. B., for example, who is able to show that be has no property, and that nobody...
...idleness which beset them, and succeed in winning money which they do not need. Not to mention the probable supposition that in such cases the emolument would in some way be restored to the college, it is confidently replied that, any stimulus to self-control and industry which may chance to reach the inheritors of wealth it is for the interest of the community to bestow. Moreover, to those who are troubled by difficulties of this description, it may be pointed out that they could be well-nigh avoided by prudent conditions. It might be provided that money accruing from...