Word: properous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...definite move has been made towards restoring the Trophy Room to its proper condition. We believe that there is a strong, though possibly latent, sentiment in the University about this, and that much regret is felt over the neglect. It is no trifling matter. The Trophy Room is by no means an unimportant institution. Few features of the University receive so much attention from visitors, and, during the summers especially, the number who enter there to look over Harvard's records is very large. One summer a record of the attendance was kept, and it was found that over four...
...understand that it is the opinion of experts on the subject that proper ventilation must be obtained by mechanical devices. Only by the use of these can the air be forcibly removed, and a continual change be ensured. And yet, at present, Sever Hall and one of the laboratories in Boylston are the only places where any attempt has been made to provide proper equipment. In the rest of the buildings, the ancient mode of ventilation still obtains. Apertures are provided through which the air may escape, the warm air is expected to create a draft, and there the matter...
...remedies are presented as equally imminent. Some of these measures have much in them that will recommend them to the students, but, on the other hand, there are at least two which the great body of students whould feel to be uncalled for at the present time and proper to be mentioned only as remote possibilities. These are,-first, the abolition of freshman intercollegiate contests; and, secondly, biennial intercollegiate contests by 'varsity teams in each sport...
...proper memorials presented at each place...
...rearranging the room, Dr. Sargent was greatly surprised to find that many of the team pictures and other trophies were missing. Recent team pictures are not to be found at all and the baseballs won in recent games with Princeton and Yale are not in the proper case. The tables of Harvard and Yale records in track events alone are complete up to the present time. This is the result of personal attention given to the matter by Dr. Sargent and Mr. Lathrop...