Word: personal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...person who may have printed accounts of any university race in which Harvard has taken part previous to 1876 will confer a great favor on the H. U. B. C. by sending such accounts to the Secretary at No. 5 Holyoke...
...Fall Races take place at two o'clock tomorrow, over the Union course. Efforts will be made to avoid all delays, and probably it will be easy for the same person to see the races and match between Yale and Tufts. Besides the usual prizes of goblets and mugs for the members of the winning crews in both races, the Graduates' Cup is to be rowed for by the sixes. This cup is now on exhibition in one of the windows under Holyoke House. The names of the victorious six will be handed down to posterity on the parchment which...
...this bombast and vituperation on the part of the Courant did not, by any means, express the sentiment of the College. But the deliberate charges made by their captain in a speech at a regular meeting of the Yale Boat-Club are the utterances of a responsible and representative person, and for these it is that we hold Yale accountable. Till they are retracted or, at least, explained and excused, we ought not to row with Yale...
...toast. If pleasures unexpected were twice welcome, so indeed were distinctions and honors, and of them he had just tasted. Coming there, an interested and sympathetic auditor of their exercises, he did not know that an honored degree of the University was to be bestowed upon so unworthy a person as himself. But the less his merit the greater their bounty, and thus could they measure what was due to them by their generosity to him. The name and fame of fair Harvard were not theirs alone, and he had always had his share, as an American citizen...
...that the finances of the College are not in a flourishing state. For all that, when a Corporation continues charging students exorbitant rents, and at the same time employing for students cheap and inefficient labor, it is carrying economy a little too far. It may be urged that the person who has charge of the College domestics makes frequent visits to the rooms and inspects the work, but it can be said in reply that, although Mrs. Ames may be satisfied with the way work is done in College rooms at forty cents a week, the occupants are not satisfied...