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With reference to the second charge, it is sufficient to say that no foot-ball game was at any time last fall arranged between Harvard and Williams. An attempt was made to arrange one, but no date could be agreed upon. On Oct. 11, the manager of the Williams eleven, in reply to a communication from Harvard, telegraphed that the Wednesdays and Saturdays from Oct. 16 to Nov. 20 were filled. The game with Yale was played Oct. 23, twelve days after this telegram was sent...
...constitution of any university depends entirely on the proportionate use of two factors: the powers in the hands of the faculties as such, and the powers entrusted to a rector, or as we say, president. The faculty system is from Paris, that of the rector from Bologna. The constitution of Harvard University is only seemingly anomolous since the overseers exercise the power which in Europe is exercised by the faculties or teachers in convocation. The Corporation of Harvard College, although only designed to copy the body found in the English colleges under the university in power is the Bolognese student...
...regular as clock-work. When the instant arrives, click goes the machinery and down falls the blow. So it is with our annually recurring complaints. Spring puts in an appearance, and with it must come its appropriate complaint. But you will say when you hear this particular complaint, "Oh that is the old one of 'keep off the grass!' " So it is. But why do we utter again the time-worn and useless cry? Truly, only because we think it has neither of these two qualities. Time-worn it may seem to some, however, but thereby only the more...
...University by permitting the departure of so excellent a scholar as Professor Croswell in addition to the loss of Professor Dyer, whose scholarship is no less universally acknowledged. It is not here our place to criticise the course of events that led to this wholly unexpected - might we say unwarranted - loss. To us falls the profitless task of expressing deep regret at losing two teachers who have won the esteem and the thanks of so many of our number. We are convinced that we express the true feelings of every man who has had any intercourse with either Professor Dyer...
...nines, of editors-in-chief in the papers, and so there can be no fixed policy in the conduct of athletics or anything else. One man builds his plan out and disappears; another succeeds him and grafts his own ideal on to his predecessor's relicts, so to say, and, to mix metaphors, the result is a very patchwork of policy - likest a crazy-quilt, Queen Anne's cottage, than any other product of the same human mind. Hence, too, the impossibility of the strictest economy. The bucket changes hands so often and so rapidly, and each carries...