Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spring of 1888 the oversight of our athletics was taken from the sole authority of the faculty and transferred to that of a representative committee, made up of three faculty members, three graduates and three undergraduates. It has been steadily the aim of this committee to centralize and unify our athletics in order to strengthen them. In following out this policy the committee has sometimes been obliged to take some action whose wisdom the students have not been able to see. The result in several cases has been very unfortunate. Last spring the base ball difficulty arose entirely because...
...experienced graduate all credit for the excellent showing which the '90 nine made against one of the best teams that Yale ever had. Whether the absence of this graduate from the list of advisers of the nine is due to Mr. Dean's personal prejudice or to an accidental oversight, he ought to be consulted at once. If Mr. Dean will act on this suggestion perhaps the nine may defeat Yale after...
Those instructors who have a general oversight of the Evans Library make direct charges that men are stealing books from the library. The idea may seem hardly credible, yet the fact is that the books are disappearing. Harvard students are given more privileges and advantages in the use of the libraries than any other set of men we know of. It is very sure that the authorities will deprive us of these privileges, if student sentiment is not strong enough to prevent wholesale stealing of the books...
...rule forbidding the giving of extra money, and a letter oversight of the equitable division of work would do much to improve the present system...
...Flint is provisionally assigned to a commencement part. His name was at first omitted through an oversight at the University office...