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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Francis Parkman, the eminent historian, died Wednesday at his home in Jamaica Plain...
...that the dual league system, as that system is understood here at Harvard, is the best road out of the difficulty. Written compacts, in black and white, will have to be made between each two of the institutions before this petty squabbling can be stopped. Harvard has a perfectly plain agreement with Pennsylvania in football and with Yale in other sports, which practically settles the points over which there has been so much dispute in the association. This is precisely the thing which will have to be resorted to in other cases. This mode of settling the question will...
...require them, or to compel students to place themselves under the direction of men officially approved. As, on the other hand, no one qualified to tutor, and of good standing in the University, can fail to be placed on the list, it will also be plain that the best choice for a student to make is from the names on the list...
Over four weeks of the football season have now passed, and none of the work of the eleven has been in any way concealed from the students. The practice has all been on an open field where each action of the players, the captain and the coachers was in plain sight of everybody who cared to see it. Consequently there has been so far comparatively little adverse criticism of the methods employed. To a rather unusual extent the college has stood behind the team and the coachers; where men have been in doubt about the wisdom of certain plans, they...
...certain departments there is a loss in numbers, but in the Medical and Law Schools, where the loss is greatest, the decrease is a sign of growth rather than retrogression, for in each case it indicate a distinct raising of the standard. The figures in the article are so plain that they require little comment beyond what is given in connection with them...