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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Observations are also desired at regular intervals from noon to six p.m. on certain days, whether a thunderstorm is in progress or not. These days will be called Term-days; they will be appointed one and a half to two days in advance by special message from the Chief Signal Officer in Washington, and will be announced to the public by telegraphic reports to all newspapers of the New England Associated Press. They will be days on which thunder-storms are expected. Most of the important newspapers have agreed to print these Term-day announcements...
...followed in rapid succession, and the college has now ample opportunity for retrospect. The faculty of late years have shown a spirit of liberal action in their treatment of the students, and the students have responded in a manly spirit. But on Tuesday a severe blow was dealt to progress at Harvard. The undergraduates have been given one more privilege, and this time they have been found wanting. Hereafter the faculty we fear will remember the mistake which has been made, and curtail further advance toward student government...
...intercourse, and form a pleasant and profitable feature of the club. The subjects of conversation are of course largely classical, although there are no set topics for discussion. The free and cordial way in which students and instructors mingle with one another is a proof, not only of the progress which has made a university out of a college, but also of the effect of the elective system in establishing a community of interest between instructors and students. The student's familiarity with the professor can hardly fail to stimulate his enthusiasm in his chosen field of work...
...lake. Dr. Holmes' may have written with prophetic insight when he described in "A Mortal Antipathy," a close and exciting race between crews of opposite sexes, which the representatives of the young ladies institute finally win by a clever ruse - tempting the gallantry of their opponents. If the present progress in athletic training continues, who can tell how soon Dr. Holmes' imaginary race may become a reality in a contest between the champion eights of Wellesley and Harvard? But the students at Wellesley do not give all their enthusiasm to boating. Near the lake is a large and level field...
...gives the meeting of yesterday any value. The subject of cribbing, as the votes given on our first page will show, was treated in a very unsatisfactory and unbusinesslike way. Such conduct of business hardly speaks for the dignity of the committee. It should be said that the progress of the meeting was much hindered by the many absences. As the conference does not meet often, it seems as if all who are connected with it, who have this, the only representative student body at Harvard in their care, might attend the meetings regularly. The conference committee has the best...