Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...favorite practice indulged in by some instructors of setting a nominal three hour examination paper containing questions whose answers would require at least three hours and a half to be written from dictation with no time allowed for consideration, seems to retain its old time popularity among the said instructors. Nothing is more discouraging to the laboring student than to realize at the beginning of an examination, that it will be impossible to finish the paper in the time allotted. The hasty work done under such circumstances cannot fail to disgust the instructor, and we can say from experience that...
...meets the Orange and Black, our most formidable rivals, in a game which is of vital importance in determining the championship struggle. If victory falls to us there can remain but little doubt as to the result of the struggle for the pennant. Our track athletes will endeavor to retain the Mott Haven Cup which has been so long in our possession as to seem almost like a fixture. Of our success in this endeavor there can be but little question. The steady and faithful work of the past winter cannot fail to meet its proper reward. Of the third...
...than it has in the past. At the present, any student of the university can become a member simply by signing the constitution and paying a small fee. The problem which the committee had before them was to restrict membership in some way, but at the same time to retain the so-called cosmopolitism of the society. The following article was proposed. and will come up at the next meeting for final decision...
...will be truly eventful in Harvard's athletic annals. Our 'varsity nine meets its strongest rival at New Haven; the freshmen play one of the games which are to decide whether or not the class of eighty-eight at Yale shall retain a championship which has not left New Haven for many years; the lacrosse team will make an attempt to bring back the laurels which it lost last year; the Athletic Association holds its most important meeting. from the, winners in which will be chosen the men who are to defend our Mott Haven cup; and the cricket...
...Boston, Somerville and Cambridge clubs, and by steady playing scored a well earned victory. Next Saturday the team will play its first championship game with Princeton here in Cambridge. Princeton secured the lacrosse championship last year, and, as its team is almost the same as then, hopes to retain it. But if our men continue to improve as much as they have the past few weeks, she may have to relinquish the coveted prize...