Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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These meetings will be addressed by persons prominent within or without the University, but they are intended to be informal, and students will be expected to ask questions and offer suggestions about the matter in hand. For this reason it has been decided to call them College Conference Meetings...
...least should be literary in character. There is much literary ability in Harvard which is discouraged during the first half of the college course or remains wholly uncultivated. It is not right that men of such tastes should not have a chance to develop themselves. The college papers offer now the only opportunities to such men, but it is evident that these cannot satisfy the need. It is with a view to remedy this evil that the suggestion is made about a literary society for sophomores. Such an organization should have in it a social element, yet it should...
...undone which will in any way make success more certain. It is their aim to develop men for those events which are not very strong at present. Coxe's graduation leaves Yale without the winner of the two of the first prizes taken last spring. The Athletic Association now offer prizes for contests in throwing the hammer and putting the shot. Last winter a series of high jump contests was held for the purpose of developing new men in this event. There were a large number of entries, and the practice was a great help to the candidate...
...relieve our sports from some of the evils that degrade them? The best way to accomplish this is to remind the individuals of the ultimate aim of physical exercise. Do not the harmonious development of the physique and the building up of the highest type of manhood, offer an inducement to work...
...attempt is being made by the directors of the Williams College Athletic Association to raise money for constructing a quarter-mile track. The alumni offer to raise one-half the sum if the students furnish the other half...