Word: roome
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...view of the discussion now going on over the relation of athletics to scholarship among college students, some facts collected from the recent report of the committee on athletics to the faculty of Harvard may be of interest. The thorough investigation of the committee leaves no room for doubt that athletics have had a beneficial effect upon the scholarship of men here. From the first table in the report which shows the college rank of the university teams in 1885-86, it appears that the average percentage of the four college teams was 72. That of the crew...
...those interested, as graduates, or at any time members of Phillips Exeter Academy, will please meet in my room, 9 Linden street, the Wednesday night after the mid-years close, Feb. 13 at 7.30 o'clock...
REVIEW GERMAN A.- I shall read the books read in this course and explain difficulties, in my room, Tuesday evening...
...CLUB ROOM and few seats at general table. Good food and attention guaranteed...
Another reputed evil of athletics is their supposed tendency to draw men away from the lecture room. That this irregularity of attendance exists only to a surprisingly small degree is proved by the investigation of the committee. They found that in 1886-87 the excess of the average number of absences of the men engaged in athletics above the average of their class was-for the Mott Haven team, 1; the crew, nine, and cricket team, 5; the leading tennis players, 7, and the eleven, 8. On the other hand the lacrosse team had a record of six less absences...