Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Proof sheets of the list of students for the catalogue are posted in the library and at the entrance of University. Every one should see that his name and adnress are right. Leave corrections with the secretary at University...
...third annual handicap road race of the Bicycle club will be held Friday November 15. The course extends from Mount Auburn bridge to Watertown; across the river, then to the right straight through West Newton to the great sign boards; here it turns sharply to the left and follows Beacon street to Walnut street where it turns again to the left through Newton Centre to Lowell street. Then it takes the right and returns to Mt. Auburn bridge over the same course. The distance is fourteen miles...
...Francis C. Lowell, compares "Harvard and the Continental Universities." The author shows that while the German universities invite students to learn, but do not concern themselves farther, Harvard has very different functions. Harvard undertakes "the advancement of learning and sound morals alike." She has therefore "the full right to make and enforce such regulations as she believes profitable to good morals among her students...
...solely for the purpose of joining athletic teams. The action now taken has long been needed, and will, we hope, fully accomplish its purpose. College athletics have been slowly but surely assuming the character of professionalism-have, in other words, been gradually assuming a position which they have no right to occupy. It certainly would be far better that they should be abolished than that they should ever reach this stage. Just as soon as college games demand the active participation of graduates, just as soon, that is, as graduates return to college solely for athletics, just so soon intercollegiate...
...Special attention will be paid to the decoration of this entrance where directly over the main door will be carved the words, "Brown Hall." The date of completion of the building will be carved to the left of this in a circle of stone and on the right, the seal of the college. On either side of the door the columns of Georgian marble will be capped with pure white statuary marble. The building will probably be open by next September...