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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dinner of the Harvard Club of Washington, held Wednesday night was the largest in its history. The guests were President Eliot, Mr. Kurino, the Japanese minister; Postmaster-General Wilson, and Senator Lodge. The graduates present were mostly from the classes of more recent years...
...President's review of the experience during recent years of a supervision of athletics by an athletic committee, is hardly more than a history, but is very appropriate in view of recent utterances against the Harvard system. He shows clearly that the committee has been the direct cause, against much opposition, of raising the amateur standing and of eliminating professionalism. He recognizes that through the committee the marked abuses, which he attacked so severely in his last report, have been largely remedied. The reader infers that though President Eliot probably retains his personal dislike for football he is not disappointed...
Latin, elementary course and two more advanced courses; Greek, a first and second year's course; English, three successive courses in English Composition extending through the freshman, sophomore and junior years; two courses in English Literature, one usually on Shakespeare, and one on more recent literature; German, two successive courses; French, three successive courses above the elementary course prescribed for freshmen who enter without French; Philosophy, one elementary course; Practical Ethics, one course; Political Economy, one elementary and a more advanced course; History, three and one half courses, one in Mediaeval and Modern European History, one in the Constitutional...
State Treasurer Hodge of Connecticut on Tuesday paid to Louis Bristol of New Haven, for Yale University, $154,604.45, the amount of the recent award to Yale by the state Yale-Storrs commission; the injunction in the United States Circuit Court restricting the state treasurer from paying any of the money to Yale College being dissolved...
...rapid growth of the Lawrence Scientific School within recent years as regards both equipment and enrolment is a familiar fact to most Harvard men. The article on this subject in Saturday's CRIMSON showed clearly to what this growth was due, namely, the vigorous, progressive administration, which has not been baffled by the serious limitations of space, apparatus and general funds, but has pushed steadily on, making at every moment the largest possible use of what material was available, and ready always with plans for future development which awaited only the money necessary for carrying them...