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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...When the question of restricting membership to the Union was discussed last spring many doubts were expressed as to the advisability of making any change. The past year had been an unusually prosperous one for the society, and many felt that a movement towards any exclusiveness in membership might result in a lessening of the interest which the college at large would take in the debates of the Union. In making a report for the past half year your Executive Committee takes pleasure in saying that these fears have not been realized; that, on the contrary, greater interest...
...compound of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, each of them an essential constituent of the body. All food should be well masticated, and the proportion of vegetable and animal foods eaten carefully considered. When a portion of food, or drink, saliva, or any other substance has been carried back past a certain point on the posterior part of the tongue, it is completely out of our power to resist swallowing. After leaving the mouth the food passes through the oesophagus to the stomach, which is a hollow muscular organ, and provided with a number of glands which produce the gastric juice...
...improvements in the different courses and the new numbering of them have made the old examination papers, now at the library, almost useless, except as memories of the past...
...conjecture only. Harvard will undoubtedly put a freshman team in the field, and thus the problem which presented itself at the beginning of this year will never have to be solved again. We trust, however, that the spirit of improvement which has animated foot-ball men in the past will continue to exhibit itself and that such changes will from time to time be made as will lift the game into its true position, as the most exciting and most skilful of college games. Harvard has ever been in the foremost rank of reform, and on this account also...
...work. The prospect of the freshman nine, judging from the number and excellence of the candidates, is certainly very favorable for success, if the men are constant and energetic. There is little need for us to remind eighty-nine of the treatment Harvard freshman nines have received in the past, and we sincerely hope that eighty-nine will break the record. Nothing but hard work will enable a freshman nine to defeat a Yale freshman nine, having in prospect a seat on the far-famed fence...