Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...candidates for the Freshman tug-of-war team have been pulling for the past week on the cleats at the gymnasium from five until half past...
...resorted to for this purpose than the annual president's reports; they are replete with information of the concisest and most valuable kind. A history of Harvard compiled solely on the basis of these publications would be in itself a very excellent book. President Eliot's report for the past year is in no way inferior to its predecessors; on the contrary it again records many momentous changes, wrought and to be wrought in the government of the university...
During the last twenty years, while scientific studies were finding their place in the college elective lists, the Lawrence scientific school, once a leader among its fellows, has been steadily losing in number of scholars, and hence in influence. For some years past it has suffered seriously, simply from being overshadowed by the growing college across the street. Some have thought that this meant a discouragement to science-teaching at Cambridge, but the very reverse is the case. When the school was founded, the college was narrow, and saw no propriety in allowing a wide variety of study...
...history of religious exercises at Harvard is entertaining and instructive. The change from the compulsion of the past to the long-wished for, and no less valuable freedom of the present, is only the outcome of years of striving and endeavor...
...with so much zeal and with such a common consent of alumni and the entire public. The future of the university must be assured, and every alumnus of the institution must feel a pride in it that has never been equalled even in the most prosperous days of the past...