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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...average age of the Yale freshman class is eighteen years and one month, one month younger than last year's average. The average weight is 130 pounds...
...Williams college eleven has played twelve games this fall, nine exhibition and three championship. Of these Williams won one championship and tied one and won five exhibition games. She has made three hundred and four points to her opponents' two hundred and thirteen. A notice is posted in University stating that an examination will shortly be held by the civil service commission in Washington, or in any other large city where the board has an office, to select two clerks for the geological survey, at a salary of $900 each. Some knowledge of geology is required...
...Letter by Mr. Finlay is a welcome contribution to the much discussed problem of Harvard's inferiority in athletics. Coming from one who has had such good opportunities to judge the situation on its true merits, the views expressed deserve careful consideration. The writer finds the solution of Yale's victories in the fact that "Yale has better men," and that where our rivals have not been physically superior, the discrepancy has been made up by excellent management. He thinks that the "talk about college loyalty in athletics is nonsense," that what we need is more love for athletic sports...
...proportion the need of a preparatory training is becoming more evident. Our high schools and academies are suffering much because many of their teachers, though college graduates, are utterly inexperienced, and must spend the first year or more in learning methods. This year of training may be a valuable one for the teacher, but its effect upon the pupils, as many can testify, is far from beneficial...
...those not connected with the university. He said that many feel that our system of religion is not apt to work for, the best interests of the students; that the popular impression is that Harvard influences are not of the best. He spoke merely as an outsider, and as one who knew very little but felt a great interest. He hoped that the students would individually do all in their power to correct these impressions of Harvard. Rev. Phillips Brooks then addressed the meeting at length. He dwelt upon the difficulty which a university offers of forming large circles...