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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Most of the recent bequests to the University have been for specified purposes of some kind, with the result that the Corporation has felt seriously the need of ready funds for making improvements along the most needed lines. Now, however, that one of the largest gifts of recent years has come to the Corporation, this last summer, with no conditions imposed as to its use, we may look for several improvements which have long been desirable but which it has thus far been impossible to make. One addition, in particular, to the University, which has become almost a necessity...
...question of the healthfulness of Soldiers Field for training purposes, which has caused considerable recent discussion, had of course by no means been neglected by the corporation when the original plans were made. At their request a thorough investigation of the question was made by the State Board of Health, which resulted in a statement that the Soldiers Field District compared favorably with any in the Charles River Valley and had on the whole a better health record than the vicinity of Holmes Field...
...objections taken in one of this morning's communications to a recent CRIMSON editorial in regard to the attitude of the University toward the crew are based on a misunderstanding of the spirit in which that editorial was written. No attempt was made to excuse a defeat before it was received, nor was the ability of the crew underrated. Indeed we believe that Harvard has a better chance to win the boat race this year than for many years past. But we also think that there has been a too general idea that the crew would win this year...
...with the sense that it is temporarily a home, and the certainty that they will find there home comforts, good food, good nursing and such medical attendance as they may require or choose to command, has been sufficiently shown by the individual experiences of students themselves and by the recent reports of the Medical Visitor of Harvard College...
...good deal of racing experience, and which are undoubtedly both about as fast as any that have ever represented those universities. In addition, the so-called Yale and Cornell strokes are by no means so inferior or different from the English as seems to be supposed; at recent Henley regattas and on other occasions Yale and Cornell crews have rowed very close to the most thoroughly trained and experienced British crews, and then under the disadvantages of a foreign climate...