Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...While we read in the Yale papers such alarming accounts of the Yale crew, our 'Varsity is quietly pursuing its daily task without drawing much attention. Now that athletics seem virtually over for this season, and every one is settling down to work upon his annuals, we are too apt to become forgetful of the men who are to represent the crimson at New London. To visit the boat-house and see the crew push off is truly not very edifying, but every attention shown them is a slight incentive to greater effort. We have not the means of going...
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Would it not be to the benefit of the students at large, and a stimulus to the seniors in particular, if hereafter all commencement parts were read in public instead of before a committee? Out of twenty-five who read their parts but about six are to be chosen to read them on Commencement Day. Many of those who are not of "the chosen few" had very able productions, well worth the hearing for the careful study which they showed and for the candor and liberality of their views. Moreover we think it a very different thing...
...will be as comprehensive, the instruction as efficient, if not more so, than this year. French V. will pass under the supervision of Prof. Bocher, and an authority says it will be a different course than it has ever been before; no account will be made of the matter read; the examination will be, not on the substance of the books read, but extracts from different authors will be given to test the student's facility in reading French. Mr. Sheldon has charge of Italian I. and II.; Prof. Nash has full charge of the Spanish department; German...
MERTHY NOUGAT.P. S. One of the girls has just read this over, and she said that I had better tell you not to let it drop on anything because it is so heavy it might break something. I don't see what she means, for I wrote it on very light paper...