Word: objectionables
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Expressions of seemingly complete satisfaction with the present system of compulsory chapel have recently appeared in some of the college papers. The writers seem to assume that the removal of the more objectionable features of the service, brought about this year, and the greater interest and respect aroused thereby, have also caused the removal of all grounds for objection to the system on theoretical grounds that had been previously urged. We do not believe this to be the case. The improvements in the method of conducting, and the changes in the hour for holding, the service have indeed been complete...
High-tide at New London on the day following commencement will be at three o'clock P. M. next year, and at about noon in 1884. Therefore the objection raised to the unseasonable hour for a race to be rowed this year on Thursday, will not hold good for the...
A paragraph in yesterday's Boston Herald makes mention of the proposition for a consolidated nine at Harvard, but adds that the prospects of such a scheme are not encouraging. We hardly believe that matters are as hopeless as the Herald correspondent puts it. Indeed, we have reason to think...
The Yale News states that there is some prospect of the formation of a canoe club at New Haven this spring, and in commending the project it says: "There are canoes enough in college, but any sport to be enjoyable must be companionable, and it is not strange that the...
The addition of the tug-of-war to the intercollegiate games to be held at the New York polo grounds this spring, will add greatly to the interest of the occasion, and will create an emulation which will bring out the best men of the colleges represented. A suggestion has...