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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chapel. The importance of the work done by this association is too generally known to require an elaborate explanation in these columns, yet the sublime confidence shown by the students that its affairs will be managed, - and managed well - by somebody, calls for a word of warning. In the past the association has been extremely fortunate in its officers, yet this good fortune has been the result of chance rather than that of the exercise of any special forethought on the part of the members of the society. If in the future our track athletics are to be kept...
...celebrated countryman, chief Justice Coleridge, he still declares himself in favor of the continuance of the study of Greek and Latin as a component part of a college course. He said in a lecture before the students of Johns Hopkins University: "We are the children, after all, of the past, and a comprehension of the laws of nature must not exclude the laws of man, who is a part of nature. The past lives and tingles in every particle of our body. The exclusive domination of Latin and Greek was due to their inherent power. Greek and Latin are worthy...
Below is appended the report of the treasurer of the Tennis Association for the past year...
...Canadian champions from Montreal, the members of the team have been practising each afternoon for the short time since college began, and on Saturday afternoon had a final practice game against a picked twelve composed of players from the Cambridge and Somerville clubs. The game began about half past four, and the twelves continued their play until long after it was dusk. The grass was slippery and the ball was hard to see in the evening light, so that the game was full of errors. Want of practice and training seemed to be the chief faults in the Harvard team...
...treasurer, Mr. Amory, then read his report of the management of the crew for the past year, which shows a very gratifyingly small deficit. It was as follows...