Word: problems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...change has come over us, or is about to come, and in the future the students may look forward to many a pleasant afternoon devoted to tennis. The tennis association has solved the problem whether the game was to continue at Harvard as a sport for all or only for the few, and have solved it in a manner which will meet the approval of all. The plan which they present to the public this morning is no paper scheme, but one based upon something firm, with every probability of a successful outcome. It is a plan which will give...
...problem of getting rooms in the yard becomes more and more difficult every year. The incoming freshman classes are steadily increasing, while each year, the number of vacant rooms in the college buildings shows a corresponding decrease. In the table printed on another page, statistics will be found bearing on this question, by which it will be seen that there has been, for the past ten years, a steady decrease in the number of freshmen rooming in the yard, only broken by the erection of a new building, or the graduation of a very large class; and that whereas...
...next Mathematical Seminar will be held tomorrow at 4 P. M. in U. 19. Mr. Haskell will lecture on "The theory of members." The subject for discussion will be: I. Curvature of the cogs of wheels. II. Problem. A circle of unknown radius has its centre on the circumference of a given circle and incloses within it a given area. Find the unknown radius...
...think, gentlemen, that the same prohibition in track athletics has not lost us the Cup, and therefore that rowing can be similarly treated, you simply show your ignorance and lack of practical experience. The one is a matter of individual work; the other offers the problem of making eight men do at the same time each his best individually, and altogether their best collectively-making eight men work like eight men, and like one machine. The conditions are wholly different. Consider, gentlemen, what you are doing, and also explain the peculiar distinction you make between a professional (!) such...
...have spoken thus frankly because the situation seems to demand it, for the only actions taken by the Committee last year. were unfortunate in every way. If the present Committee, with its popularity among the students, and its personal interest in the welfare of the college cannot solve this problem, we confess that we are in despair of any further faculty regulation...