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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action of the overseers of Harvard University at their meeting on Wednesday will strike a great number of the recent graduates as an unfortunate retrograde movement. During the twenty years, more or less, in which President Eliot has occupied his position, there has been steady progress in the direction of placing greater reliance on the individual student and less upon a vexatious code of rules and penalties...
...week, unless the choice has been specially allowed by the dean. That in order to make it more difficult for students to prepare by a brief period of cramming to meet the tests applied, the faculty require all the instructors to provide tests of the progress of their students with sufficient frequency to enable them to enforce effectively section 7 of the regulations. That admonition be administered by the dean or by his sole authority, and that the powers of that office be so enlarged, at whatever increased expense it may be necessary to incur, that the records of attendance...
...locality that will serve to foster the growth of refined, but simple and inexpensive tastes; third, to favor the formation, in connection with the university, of a community instructively representative of attractive and wholesome conditions of social and domestic life. The design of the building now in progress is a novel one. There is a central quadrangle, its four sides formed by a continuous arcade of stone, 18 feet high, 20 deep and 1700 long. Opening from the arcade are to be a series of structures for class rooms, lecture rooms, draughting rooms and rooms for scientific investigation and instruction...
...chosen at the beginning of the term. Before that time the unsettled state of the organization, and the knowledge that the officers were elected only for the time being, made it impossible for the club to have regular times for rehearsals, and, therefore, precluded the possibility, of its rapid progress. At present there are about thirty or forty candidates for positions on the club. It is designed to make the permanent membership of the club limited to twenty-five men, and during the next few weeks, it will be necessary for several candidates to drop from the organization...
...begin sliding to bases, practicing handball, batting, etc. The majority of the men will take up this work about the first of February. The candidates for pitcher and catcher, the names of whom appeared in a recent issue of the CRIMSON, are doing good work and making marked progress under the skilful instruction of Mr. Clarkson. Those with whom Clarkson is thrown in contact are unanimously of the opinion that the evil results supposed to be attendant upon the hiring of a professional coach are entirely fallacious. The most exacting could find no fault with the deportment and general bearing...