Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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They may be justly regarded as the picked youth of the country, many of them coming from the best families in point of culture and breeding, and from the best schools we have. They were all boys with blood in their veins, and brains in their heads, and tongues that could talk fast enough and to the purpose when they felt at ease. Many of them had enjoyed The Tempest-as who that can understand it does not?- but somehow the touch of pen or pencil paralyzed their powers...
...favorable light. Another advantage, that comes (it is true indirectly) from these conferences between students and instructors, should by no means be overlooked. The smaller colleges have long declared that Harvard, as well as other large colleges, are, from their very size, at great disadvantage as regards this very point of intimacy between the student and his professor. The establishment, therefore, of these conferences must in a large degree, if not wholly, do away with all the grounds which other and smaller colleges have for claiming any superiority over Harvard and the one or two other colleges that approach Harvard...
...good friend, the Princetonian, takes issue with us agian on the elective system. In the last editorial on this subject, however, the main point asserted in an earlier article is abandoned, and it is admitted that "men can and do work hard and earnestly at Harvard," in spite of the "notorious" tendency of her students to make life as easy as possible by selecting soft courses. After making this admission, the Princetonian enters on a discussion of the main question, and makes the following stock objections to the Harvard regime. It is maintained in the first place that work...
...WILLIAMS.SINGLE SCULL RACES assigned for the first week-in June, will take place at 4.30 Saturday afternoon, June 6. The distance to be rowed over will be one mile. The starting point will be a mile up the river from the Union Boat House, the finish at the Union Boat House. Entrance fee, one dollar, to be paid to the treasurer, W. R. Wilson, 9 Linden Street, before 7 P. M. Friday, June...
...pitches. In Harvard's half of the inning, hits by Beaman, Tilden, and Foster, supplemented by five errors by Princeton, brought in two runs. A bit by Cooper, together with a passed ball and a put-out, gave another run to the visitors in the second, but from this point to the seventh they were easily blanked. In Harvard's half of the second, the first three men at the bat were retired in order. In the third, the home team brought in two more runs on a triple by Nichols, a single by Willard, an error...