Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Postals are to be sent to the different freshmen to encourage them to enter the freshman sports on the 24th. They should not need any encouragement...
...best examinations are elected as fellows of their college, where they have a home, and along with this, a respectable income, so that they can devote the whole of their leisure to scientific pursuits. Both Oxford and Cambridge have each more than 500 such fellowships. The fellows may, but need not act as tutors for the students. They need not even live in the university town, but may spend their stipends where they like, and in many cases may retain the fellowships for an indefinite period. With some exceptions, they only lose it in case they marry, or are elected...
...repeat that we think that no one need be in the least discouraged by Saturday's game, but on the contrary they should feel very great confidence in the team of 1883, and express it in a substantial manner both by their presence at practice and by subscribing liberally to the funds of the Foot-Ball Association...
...must not be supposed that because the foot-ball management was so successful last year as to leave quite a large surplus for this year's expenses, that the team does not need money, although all the important games will be played away from Cambridge this year, where the team will not have the support of the college either financially or otherwise. The most important factor in the calculation for the expenses of the year is the Yale game at New York on Thanksgiving Day. Should the weather on that day be unfavorable our main reliance will be gone...
...urgent need of a new dormitory becomes more and more apparent at the beginning of each college year. Especially is the want felt this year, with the largest freshman class that has ever come to Harvard. If the classes continue to increase, as seems likely judging from the past, it is but a question of time when more suitable accommodations must be furnished either by the college itself or by private enterprise. A great majority of students prefer rooming in the college buildings, as the rooms are more convenient, and in many instances cheaper. The popularity of the college rooms...