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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ward's course on Modern Anthropology will also be continued. The great range of the subject has made these lectures necessarily general in character. The success of the course suggests that a valuable elective course on this subject might be added to the college curriculum. It would certainly be both instructive and popular...
Washington is a centre in which great educational resources are brought together, and from which are radiated vast influences upon American life; and the fact that it is our capital has made it the permanent or temporary residence of very many leading men, upon whom a university might draw for its lecture rooms and council chambers. Moreover, Washington offers advantages for scientific research, which can be obtained in no other city in this country. The Smithsonian Institute, the National Museum, the great government Surveys, sundry Government commissions and bureaus, whose work is largely scientific, and many retired officers...
...great interest is taken in almost all branches of athletics, and fine grounds are laid out for cricket, foot-ball and tennis, as well as for track athletics, while about two miles from the school is Long Pond, which furnishes a good stretch of water for the crews. Cricket might be called the school game, and every effort is made by the masters to encourage it. Each of the two cricket clubs, "Isthmian" and "Old Hundred," have four elevens, and the school team is picked from these. Base-ball has been forbidden as it was found to detract from...
...within the past few years an increasing number of men have gone to Yale. This may be due to our nonsuccess in athletics, to a false notion of Harvard methods, or to the energetic efforts of the Exeter Club at Yale. However desirable such a club at Harvard might have been in the past, it now an absolute necessity. That it can do good work and exert strong influence, no one can deny. There are at present ninety Exeter men in the University and we urge every one of them to answer to the call for this evening; the larger...
...candidates for the University crew met last evening in Captain Herrick's room and listened to a short talk by Mr. Storrow. The candidates were encouraged to ask questions concerning the doubtful points of the stroke and to make such suggestions as might be thought useful...