Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...period of the year is at hand when every college is holding its winter meetings; those of Harvard are near at hand, and naturally we expect them to be as successful this year as they have proved in the past. There is one suggestion, however, which we beg to offer the management. If the experience of former years is any criterion on which to base our opinions, there will be the usual crush at the entrance. The management ought not to forget this, but should open the doors earlier than is customary and let him be served best who comes...
...feet 5 1-2 inches; Bowen; 31 feet 7 1-2 inches; Manley, 31 feet 4 1-2 inches. In the pole-vault, Leavitt cleared 9 feet 3 inches; Craig, 9 feet; Wheelwright, 8 feet 6 inches, and Dickerman, 7 feet 6 inches. The Athletic Association has decided to offer a medal for general improvement in each of the events...
...object of other societies is to promote intercourse only between one class of students. A university club would embrace all classes. It would tend to break up fractions and cliques. It would bring together congenial men, who might not otherwise become acquainted. By the facilities which it would offer in the way of interesting magazines and papers, it would attract a great many men at odd hours in the day. The club rooms would be an excellent place in which to pass the time between recitations, a purpose which the library now meets very imperfectly. Visiting teams and distinguished lecturers...
...matter in hand the freshmen yielded the field and the seniors and juniors started the new journal, which was called the "Harvardiana." The first number, of octavo size with a blue cover engraved with a picture of University Hall, appeared in 1835. The editors in their opening address offer a very remarkable array of talent: "The frank and high-spirited son of the South, the cool and indefatigable Northerner, the poet with tremulous nerves and flashing eye, the reserved and imperturbable mathematician, the meditative and subtile metaphysician, are all for a time united and will probably impress their distinguishing peculiarities...
...Friday evening. There were present: B. Smith of Amherst, F. D. White of Brown, A. L. Livermore of Dartmouth, O. Applegate of Trinity, H. E. Bigelow of Williams and F. L. Talbot of Bowdoin. There was considerable enthusiasm over the arrangements for the spring meeting. It was decided to offer a cup and medals as prizes, and to hold the first field meeting at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, Friday, May 27, at 1.30 o'clock. J. T. Cunningham, Dartmouth '87, was elected grand marshal. The list of events for competition decided on are as follows: Throwing base-ball, two-mile...