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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...must do in order to secure a place. Who is there at Harvard that ever trained a month for our Athletic Field Sports? It has been often said that there is no necessity of training much, because no one does it; but this is now an excuse of the past. For it was decided, at the last meeting of the Athletic Association, that prizes are not to be given unless a fixed standard be attained. And in the interest of Harvard Athletics this is a most fortunate decision. Our best record is not flattering when compared with other American colleges...
...opinion. It has probably been found necessary to benefit the school at the expense of the game. Of its unpopularity there can be no question; and there will probably be much gnashing of teeth and lamentation over the degeneracy of the present amongst the foot-ball heroes of the past. - Rugby Meteor...
...French and German authors as well as in our own tongue. This country as yet has no class of regular litterateurs, as Paris and London have; but it is probable that, with the growth of the country, such a class is rapidly growing. Our College has in the past sent forth more eminent literary men than any other; but they - many of them, at least - say they owe not very much to the College: most of their culture was attained after leaving here. In those good old times every man, as I understand it, was forced to study the same...
...between Mr. Winsor and the city authorities, wherein efforts were made to retain him, it is unnecessary here to speak, as the dailies have told the whole story time and time again. Whether Mr. Winsor was to be preferred to another great scholar and brilliant writer, for some time past closely connected with the Library, whatever our views on the subject, we will not attempt to discuss...
DURING the past year the College has been more or less stirred by the attacks on the character and behavior of Harvard students. It is difficult to say just when and where these attacks originated; but perhaps the ball was set rolling by the strictures on our religious opinions made during the course of Monday Lectures by the Rev. Joseph Cook, and by the discussion concerning Young Harvard which was carried on in the Transcript. There is no doubt that the men who made these attacks honestly believed what they said, and that they spoke with more or less...