Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Every autumn hears a wail go up over the degeneration of Harvard sports. Last year, when we returned from the summer vacation, humiliated by defeat, and almost in despair at our ill success, we vowed unutterable vows in our determination for a reform. We all know the result. We can even now only look forward with fear and trembling for the further results. But it is useless to sit still and bemoan the past, if we have in our hands the means of regeneration. It is very evident that the material of our athletic teams must be improved. The best...
...sinner above other public schools; but instead of taking the load with its large endowments and prestige, naturally enough it has followed in the wake of Rugby, and other foundations, and in the matter of Latin verse, which we may take as the touch-stone of a reforming, or a non-reforming school, has shown itself the most conservative of them all. The first step to any real reform of studies is the abolition of verse-making, except as an extra in the higher forms. Greek, too, as a compulsory subject is doomed, and all the head masters in England...
...change in the course of study only gradually gained recognition and adoption. Professor Ticknor labored long in advancing the system, and Professor Longfellow, holding to his methods, aided the reform as it gradually gained ground. From 1825 to 1839 the system was unceasingly agitated. In 1839 the required classical work was restricted to the freshman class. This was a great advance, and from this time on the system grew more rapidly into favor. In 1841 it was officially announced that the new system of election had greatly improved the scholarship of the students, and additional privileges were allowed. President Sparks...
There is great satisfaction about the promptness of the Corporative in getting not only foreign books, but particularly books that are published on this side. This is the third complaint made since reform was promised...
...many persons who have heretofore supported them and believed that while they did some harm, they did more good. In particular, the game of foot-ball was played in such a brutal and dishonorable way that the faculty, after waiting two seasons to see if the players could not reform the game themselves, have been obliged to prohibit inter-collegiate foot-ball altogether. It is very improbable that a game which involves violent personal collision between opposing players can ever be made a good inter-collegiate game. None of the popular games or contests which have proved long-lived...