Word: older
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard team was made up of new men, excepting Grant, as it was thought better to save the older half milers for later in the season, and to give the newer men the experience of racing...
...College, Virginia," to their brother Elisha Parmeli, of the University at Cambridge. Parmeli received the chapter in person from the meeting Alpha in Virginia. He was allowed to stop at New Haven on his homeward journey, that he might organize there a Yale branch. The Yale fraternity is thus older than that of Harvard...
...Harvard Graduates' Magazine should have at least one thousand more subscribers in order to maintain its efficiency. The Council of the Magazine Association finds that the proportion of subscribers from the more recent classes is much lower than among the older graduates, but it believes that this disproportion is not due to a lack of interest on the part of the younger Harvard men, but to the fact that the need of a large number of regular and loyal subscribers has not been sufficiently brought to the attention of the more recent classes. The Council, therefore, sends you this explanation...
...inter-club contest of last evening the new departure in Harvard debating amply justified itself. The victors are to be most heartily congratulated. Though representative of a Freshman club and comparatively inexperienced, they have yet shown ability superior to their older rivals and illustrative of the cooperation and hearty support of their fellows...
...talk about "favoritism," "indifference," and the other absurd explanations of Harvard's lack of success in intercollegiate contests is a mass of nonsense. The radical difficulty which lies back of the whole situation is that undergraduates are left to do as best they may without organized conservative advice from older heads. Harvard's competitors have today systems of permanent supervision, supplied by shrewd, mature men. Harvard has nothing of this beyond what is supplied by the scattering efforts of individuals...