Word: presented
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...disagreeable controversy. The climax came this year. If we may trust our past experience, then, the action which we took in withdrawing cannot be so bad in its consequences as pur continuation in the league another year would almost necessarily have been. If worst comes to worst under the present circumstances, our condition will still remain better than before our withdrawal. It is foolish to harbor the fear that we may not have antagonists in the future, even if we remain outside every league. Neither Yale nor Princeton can afford to refuse to contest with us, and Yale, certainly, would...
...letter in the Nation, extracts from which we publish today, advocating the abolition of intercollegiate athletics, contains in a concise form most of the objections to our present system. The writer, however, utterly fails to appreciate the arguments in favor of athletics. He claims that the prevention of provincialism and the increase of college patriotism are the only good, results and argues that these are far overbalanced by the evils of gambling, drinking, brutality and expense, by the confinement of athletics to the few men who are on the teams, and by the attendance at college of men who come...
...Delta Upsilon held its seventh annual banquet at Young's hotel, Wednesday evening, with some sixty members present. Among the officers elected at the business meeting for the ensuing year were R. S. Beckford, Harvard, '85, secretary treasurer, and C. A. Bunker, '89, member of the executive committee. The society is in a very flourishing condition. Ten members were initiated into the Harvard chapter last Tuesday, and the meeting of the fraternity for 1891 will be held here...
...CUMMINGS.ANDOVER CLUB.- There will be a meeting of the Andover club in 18 Matthews, Thursday evening, December 12 at 7.30 p. m. All Andover men are urged to be present as important business is to come before the board...
...teacher, he thought Harvard had done her fair share of the work during the last thirty years. The methods of teaching the principal subjects have fundamentally changed at Harvard within twenty years, and I suppose it is the case in other colleges. If, therefore, we are right in our present methods, what good would it do to teach the old methods? Take, for instance, the study of Natural Science. The method of teaching it twenty years ago was worse than useless. How long is it that a reasonable method of teaching natural science has been in use? About fifteen years...