Word: recent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recent action of several individuals in disfiguring the pedestal of the statue of John Harvard is a type of outrage that should be punished so severely that there may be no fear of its occuring again for a long time to come. There is something peculiarly underhanded and despicable about the affair, in the utter disregard for the rights of others exhibited by its authors. For the worst of it is that the culprits themselves are too insignificant to suffer the full effect of their charming mixture of sneak and bravado...
...view of these circumstances it seems as though the game ought to be more generally recogized, and at least ought to have some regular place for practice next year. It is the kind of sport which President Eliot strongly advocated in his recent talk on athletics, requiring skill before strength and not calling for such hard or extensive training as to necessitate neglect of college work or other interests...
...recent meeting of the Law School Faculty, the following regulations were passed...
...recent meeting the council reorganized its system of publications. Hereafter it will issue its own journal, which will be published in bi-monthly parts. The editor-in-chief is Professor J. H. Wright and one of the two assistant editors is Professor J. R. Wheeler, Ph. D. Harvard 1885, now of Columbia. The yearly appropriation for the journal will be $5000. The institute offers annually four fellowships at the schools, each of the value of $600. The examinations for the two fellowships at the school at Athens will be held this week at Halle, Germany, Athens, Greece, Ithaca...
...John Corbin's article in a recent number of Harper's Weekly on "Why Harvard does not Win" serves as the but against which Grilk '98 has levelled a very good bit of forensic writing. He has shown rather conclusively that a movement toward athletic reform lies not in a reorganization of our social system, nor in the proposed plan of disintegration into smaller colleges which Mr. Corbin, after a year or two at Oxford, advocates strongly, but rather in a greater unity and a broader sympathy among all undergraduates, inspired not alone by the hope of athletic success...