Word: regular
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Gymnastic Tournament to take place at the Gymnasium next week is an innovation of the Athletic Association we heartily approve. While it has been the custom in various other colleges to have regular winter athletic contests, Harvard has not, at least for the past few years, done anything to keep up the spirits and zeal of the men who work conscientiously during the long months of the close season, as it might appropriately be called. To spectators, also, this tournament will be interesting, and probably very amusing. Any break in the winter's dulness is certain to be acceptable...
...learn from the same paper that a "Bicyle Club" is in prosperous condition at Cambridge, Eng. The club has rooms "where maps and literature connected with bicyles will be at the disposal of members," and hold regular "meets" twice a week for "runs" across country...
...work on every subject as it should be done. The best opportunity that could be given for this work would be a vacation of a few days before the annuals and semiannuals. But there is another method, if this is asking too much, which would neither interfere with the regular exercises of the College nor give any instructor extra work. By publishing the time and order of the examinations three or four weeks before they begin, the Faculty would give us the opportunity for review which we so much need. The men who had studied would not need then...
...begin with the spelling-book of Webster, over which the children of a past generation forgot their toys in their enthusiastic efforts to master the rudiments of English orthography; let it ascend through the grade of text-books to the dictionaries. Let the series extend in this regular grade through the numerous works in all departments of knowledge, in Chemistry, Physics, Geology, Language, and Metaphysics, culminating in Edwards on the Will and Porter on the Human Intellect, before both of which works, we venture to assert, the wits of nine tenths of the Centennial visitors will gracefully, but precipitately retire...
...College "Bible" that appears this week few changes are noticeable. Admission conditions that are not removed by excellence in the study in which the condition was given, nor cancelled by examination during the year, "can be made up only at the beginning of some subsequent academic year, at the regular examination for admission...