Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...also points out emphatically the new field which Harvard and other colleges are making attractive to young men. Many political questions must arise for decision in the next few decades. The journalists and the politicians who have had the advantages of a careful, economic training, provided they still retain their common sense, will hold peculiar power over the future of great national interests. This outlook should encourage both professor and student to make the courses in Political Economy forward and vital...
...competitors the necessity of doing their very best, for the chance of places on the Mott Haven team depends largely upon the records which are made at this and at the university meeting on Saturday. With eighty-five the college lost many men who have done much to retain the cup, and it is to eighty-nine that Harvard looks to fill their places...
...that the candidates for the eleven have begun to practice on Jarvis. It is useless to expect an eleven hastily formed and scantily trained, to do more than creditably represent the university in the games of this fall, even if we are so fortunate as to be allowed to retain our position in the inter-collegiate league. Victory can hardly be looked for this year. Yet we have the consciousness that the labor involved in a course of training during the coming month will have its reward in the improved play of next year's team, and we feel sure...
...hall at the beginning of last year, and if it is their intention to remain there permanently, apply at once; but in justice to the large number who will seek later to gain admission, no one ought to secure a seat unless it is his intention to retain it during the year...
...abolish the ancient institutions of salutatory and valedictory addresses. The first step has already been taken in the abolition of the Latin salutatory. This is again an advance in the direction of progress. An institution which has long ceased to be useful, except in these colleges which still retain the old prescribed system can hardly be necessary and should at once give way before the new order of college study. In a system which has abolished that course of instruction of which the valedictory is, the index and highest honor, such an honor is not only useless, but calculated...