Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...several college papers and public periodicals have misconstrued the action taken by Harvard with reference to sending a crew to England, and have placed the college in a false light, it may be well to state the position Captain Bancroft has taken...
...proctor can insist on entering it, whatever may be his suspicions as to proceedings inside. In this respect Oxford is ahead of Harvard. The regulations meant to discourage dissipation and immorality are directed against the temptations of the town outside the college walls. Students are rigorously restrained from frequenting public houses and saloons; this hardship, however, is mitigated by the privilege of obtaining at cost from the college stores as much wine or spirits as is desired. After all allowances are made for debaucheries in other towns, there are good grounds for believing that the moral character of Oxford...
...matter open to some doubt, we think, whether a number of students, authorized by none but themselves, have a right to travel through the country and give public performances under the name of the "Harvard Minstrel Troupe" or any like title. If there are any who are anxious for such professional distinction, and feel that their individual talents justify their organizing companies, well and good; they have a perfect right to do so as private persons, or as a band of Harvard students, though we should think delicacy might prevent the use of the latter title. But they have...
WHILE the splendid victory of the Columbia crew in England is still fresh in the public mind, we would strongly urge the advisability of arranging a race between Harvard and one of the English Universities. We feel sure that the feeling of the college is strongly in favor of such a race, especially as the crew of this year will contain seven of the old oars of last year's boat. With such a crew there would be a good prospect of wiping out our former defeat by Oxford. The requisite funds to send an eight to England could doubtless...
...their expedition the height of folly, and even their own friends and college mates thinking them rash and foolhardy, - when we think of all this, our admiration for their pluck and determination is only equalled by the surprise and delight that was felt when they declined to accept the public reception tendered them by the city of New York, refusing to make a public rejoicing out of what was solely and simply a college matter...