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According to the late Historian Bancroft's will which was admitted to probate yesterday, $40,000, which is left to his grand-daughter, Suzanne Bancroft, shall, under certain conditions, revert to the permanent fund of Harvard College...
...nearer and nearer the rush-line until he stood just behind the centre-rusher. From this position he began to indulge in passing to the other halves, who then made the run or the kick. Strange to say, often this passing was well started the play seemed to revert once more to running by the quarter-back. Not that he did not also pass, but he did a deal of running through the centre on his own account. This led to unusual severity of play at that point, and a rule was passed forbidding running by the quarter. Unfortunately...
...recent issue, the Amherst Student, speaking editorially of what the elective system has done to bring about a greater cordiality in the relations between professor and student, and of the good effects of that greater cordiality, says, "There is some danger, however, that the present plan will revert to the former condition, and unless some efforts are put forward in all our higher institutions of learning, we may again see the professor and student living within themselves. Very recently some of the professors at Harvard were complaining that they are fast becoming exhausted by unintermitted intercourse with students." If such...
...That a return should now be threatened from the present system which those college officers best qualified to judge have pronounced a success, to the old one that has been tried and found wanting; that Harvard should deliberately retrace its steps, and from the university revert to the kindergarten, is a disappointment and a humiliation...
Harvard men have until lately supposed that having won the cup for seven consecutive years, they had established a claim to its ultimate possession. Of late there has been a rumor that the cup would not, after all the spaces were filled, revert to Harvard, but would remain a perpetual challenge cup. The facts of the case, as far as they can be ascertained, are the following: There are fourteen shields on the outside of the cup, and each year a shield is engraved with the name of the college that wins the cup, and the names of the first...