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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reason that we think it impossible for both Brown and Yale to beat Harvard; both of which things would have to happen even to tie Harvard for first place. We shall try to bear our defeat as best we can. It was bound to come some day, as people say of Hanlan. There are many circumstances which lead us to think that fortune is not favorably inclined toward us this year. She began last fall and has shown her displeasure more or less all the time since. All our teams have suffered, but the ball nine most...
...University, or if there is, that it is of any value, is not dreamed of. The specialist who pleads in behalf of another kind of learning is considered a fanatic. "We don't want original researches," I have heard it said, "but good all-round men," that is to say, the best specimens of the crammer who have a smattering of many things, but know nothing well. But how can it be otherwise? Men whose whole attention has been given to discovering what will pay in the schools are not likely, when they have gained their reward and a sinecure...
...wealthy person or persons who will bestow upon this really worthy institution, the Harvard Annex, some good and well equipped buildings and spacious grounds, which shall be at once modestly far from and conveniently near to the university. If it is desirable, and the writer does not presume to say that it is not, to advance the higher education of women, surely no better and no more promising means could be taken. A college for women under the shadow of Harvard University, with no restrictions from poverty and narrow quarters, would grow rapidly into an institution which would not only...
...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 it disgusts the writer of the paper. It is almost impossible to get a fair estimate of a man's ability from the hasty scrawl which he really feels obliged to hand in, and we fail to see what object the instructor can have in view in setting...
...lacrosse team which has just won such signal victories over the best omateur teams in the United States, has, shameful to say, been hardly supported at all by the college. It is needless to say that the team's expenses have been heavy, and it is also unnecessary to say that they ought to be assumed by the college. Now the team has been able to play but three games in Cambridge this year, owing to the difficulty with which matches are arranged with the local clubs. They have therefore arranged a game for this afternoon to take place...