Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...submit to the students their objections, stated specifically, and let them make an effort for change. The committee may claim that they did so last year with no beneficial results; but the method of their action then was so distasteful to the undergraduates that the attempt on their part at radical change was not genuine and so came to nothing. Then the idea of faculty interference in athletics was so novel and disagreeable, that the students simply bucked against it recklessly. Now the idea of interference, although no less disagreeable, perhaps, has lost all of its novelty, and we realize...
...team. The eleven certainly deserves the support of the class and should feel confident of obtaining it. We certainly hope that a large and enthusiastic crowd will be present tomorrow to encourage the efforts of Harvard in the first inter-collegiate contest in which '88 is to take part...
...Harvard, President McCosh of Princeton, and President Gilman of Johns Hopkins University, all of whom are said to have rowed on their respective 'Varsity crews, In England it is well known that a large proportion of the most influential men in public affairs during the past century took part during their college days in some kind of athletic sport, either in cricket, foot ball, rowing or some other branch...
...average standing and mental qualifications of crew men were higher than the average in a college as a whole, citing his own case as an example. As regards the health of the men, he spoke of statistics carefully prepared from English universities of the men who had taken part in rowing contests, as showing that the health of each one was not only not injured but decidedly benefited by the course of training. President White went on further to say that boating was an excellent way to work off the surplus energy of the students. The superstition that those...
...enrolled for 1884-85, is found to be 1586, an increase of 64 over the year 1883-84. It is pleasing to notice also that this gain is quite generally distributed. There is not a department of the university, except the graduate department, which has not received part of this increase. The Veterinary School, started only last year, has now two classes, the new one consisting of ten men, and may be considered henceforth as a firmly established part of the university. A description of the new Jefferson Physical Laboratory and the advantages which it offers is the most noticeable...