Word: present
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Freshman Banjo Club contains at present five members, three banjos and two guitars. E. B. Walker is president and leader. F. W. Johnson, secretary and treasurer...
...Editor of the Herald. The dispiriting performances of the Harvard University teams on land and water throughout the last collegiate year makes the present an especial time for an appeal on the part of all interested in her welfare to the authorities of the college for a radical change in athletic policy. The outlook seems particularly hopeless from a general belief that recent failures are not due to a temporary lack of material, but a wrong method on the part of the students in bringing together and selecting the material, and in putting it into proper shape. The students...
...Such being the present state of affairs the following changes appear to me advisable...
...there is another and more important point involved in the change of Harvard's athletic policy, which I ask to be noted as the pith of this letter. Under the present system where students are at a loss to know what will be done next, or whether their outlays and training may be made naught at the last moment by some unlooked-for rule of novelty, it is not to be wonder that the teams are supported by the college listlessly, and that they themselves play with a feeling of indifference and a proneness to lay their continued defeats...
...recent resolution of the Board of Overseers calling for information in regard to the system of voluntary attendance at chapel service and at lectures. The lack of foresight manifested by the Overseers is justly criticized and the injury likely to result from this indirect attack upon Harvard's present methods is clearly appreciated. We wish to commend also the editorial upon the now celebrated article in the North American. No tendency is shown to hide the evil that exists in the college communities, but there is a just demand that the evil shall not be magnified beyond its due proportion...