Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last term there appeared the announcement that a challenge cup for kicking had been offered, to be competed for every year, and to be awarded finally to the man who made the best record in the ten years. The prinary object for which the cup was offered was really to create in the men in the college greater enthusiasm in playing, football and to incite them to harder work. It was an offer on the part of the givers at once generous and expressive of the deep in erest which they feel in Harvard's success. It therefore becomes...
...standing and has called forth an annual protest for several years past. According to the present arrangement, many juniors get through all their examinations except English before June 10, and are compelled to stay in Cambridge one or two weeks longer than they otherwise would. If it is the object of the faculty to keep them in Cambridge as long as possible it is difficult to understand their motives. Men who come here from a great distance, do not go home at all during the year and are naturally anxious to leave as soon as possible. Any unnecessal delay...
...response to the call for a University mass meeting about three hundred men gathered in Upper Massachusetts last evening. On motion of Mr. Forbes Trafford '89, was made chairman of the meeting. After a secretary had been chosen, J. H. Sears, '89 stated the object of the meeting. He said that for years those most deeply interested in the athletic welfare of the university had felt that ultimately all our athletic contests would be carried on with Yale only; that many Harvard men felt that the time had come for the University to consider the question seriously; and in closing...
...indiscriminately unrestricted immigration are numerous, The large majority of the present immigrants are degraded, lazy, and ignorant and are rapidly filling up our poor houses and gaols. Thus they become a burden to the tax-payers. Again on economic grounds these immigrants are a decided loss as their prime object is to send money home. Moreover immigrants are a great political evil, as they are the prime object of political bribery and corruption...
...want to, and let them do for the Westwhat they have done for the East. Mr. C. C. Ramsay, so. second on the affirmative, said that mob-violence and strikes fully testify to the character of immigrants. The immigrants are low and do American no possible good; moreover, their object is not to benefit our country, but to get as much as possible out of it and return to their native land. Again the capacity for labor and the character of an immigrant regulate his value to this country; now as these immigrants are in a large majority...