Word: reports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College, Prof. Caldwell of Cornell Univ., Prof. Johnson of Yale, and others, in Congressional Record, vol, 17, part 8, appendix p. 231 et seq, article on "Oleo vs. Hash Butter" by Prof. Babcock in Boston Post; Apr. 2, 1888; also "In Defence of Oleo," Boston Post, Apr. 25, 1888; Report of Commissioner of Int. Revenue, 1887, pp. cxxxvii...
...second point stated in the majority's report is that 'the existing system does not, however, tend to create a general habit of athletic exercise among the whole body of students, but. rather tends to discourage...
...third point made in the report is that the matches take away, not only the players, but 'large numbers of students, who go as spectators. Not less than 400 attended the game at New York last autumn between Harvard and Yale...
...report, however, makes one definite statement, namely, that "students have been known to hiss the good play of their guests and to cheer their failures." Mr. Storey writes me that the committee took no "formal evidence" as to this and are "unable to give any such definite dates" as would enable one to make an independent investigation. I have made what investigation I have been able from several persons who have attended all the important matches that occurred in Cambridge for some years past, and who thoroughly understood the games. It is hard to prove a negative...
...Some years ago the President, in his annual report, stated that the standing of the university nine and crew was something above the average of the whole college. I have just seen some unpublished statistics at the dean's office, collected last autumn, showing the standing of the university ball nine, foot ball team and boat crew, with the three chief substitutes for each. Their average for the past year was not below, and probably a little above, the average of the college at large, and the figures show there are both high and low scholars among them. The present...