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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When we say that the newspaper statements have been, as usual, sensational and incorrect, we certainly do not mean that we are satisfied with the result of the game. We do not like to dispute the result of a game, and we don't do it often; but in this case we feel we must, in duty to the college, protest in Harvard's name against the referees decisions on Thanksgiving Day. If the team itself does not protest at the convention, we shall be very sorry, and we shall consider it a great mistake. The referee's decisions that...
...Canada's treatment of American fishermen has been unfriendly, inhospitable and often barbarous.- Foreign Relations, 1886, pp., 334-527, passim (affidavits, consular reports...
...Columbia Law School is situated near the railroad, and it is often impossible for many of the students to hear the lecturers...
...library is one about which every man feels only too strongly. Now that the days are so short, the time which the library can be used is extremely limited. The light in the reading-room is too meagre to admit of reading after half-past four o'clock, and often even earlier on cloudy afternoons. This cuts off an hour and a half from the scanty time allowed under the most favorable circumstances. It is not sufficient, however, to have the whole afternoon; a man is more inclined to reading in the evening than earlier in the day, when exercise...
...students demanded them. I wish to speak of a much less important matter, but one that is deserving of consideration. It surely does not seem unreasonable to ask that the lights in the hallways of the college buildings should not be put out at exactly twelve o'clock. Very often men are detained until after that hour, either by business or pleasure, and it is not agreeable, to say the least, on entering the building at ten minutes after twelve to find it shrouded in Egyptian darkness. One must cautiously feel his way up any number of stairs, grope slowly...