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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...followed three minutes later. The course lay first in the direction of Brattle St., via various back yards and apple orchards. Then the scraps of paper led the hounds out near the reservoir to the brick yards not far from Fresh Pond, where it was wholly lost. After a search of some six or seven minutes, the trail again found, led across the railroad to Porter's Station. Here it was lost again, and for a long time the whole pack was entirely at fault. The main part of the hounds, including the Master, started in the direction of Somerville...
...that or the other direction - 150 miles it may be - in order to "support" the home team on a distant field. In the case of the boat races, exhortation is necessary, but the result is the same. A greater or less number of students abandon their proper pursuits in search of excitement which is unwholesome per se, and add to their car fares and hotel bills the price of amusement, licit or illicit, during the nights they spend in a strange city away from their usual resources and their usual restraints. That in many cases the "visiting student's" purse...
...increase of 96 per cent. At Yale the numbers have also increased, from 471 to 504, which is only 7 per cent. So we see that Harvard is getting every year a larger percentage of the best class of students - those who come from long distances in search of culture; and this in spite of Yale's immense influence in partibus alienorum, due to the fact that she has educated the great bulk of Eastern-bred men in the West and in Middle States. Wherever one travels in the West he finds ten Yale men to one Harvard...
Does this show a "petty spirit" on the part of the faculty, or is there anything in it which is not well "calculated to" properly "influence the students in a search after truth and knowledge...
...comes the word from New Haven. Quite in contrast with this narrow policy is the liberal course which Harvard has pursued. Although our professors are nearly all free traders, nevertheless, Professor Thompson was last year appointed lecturer on protection. Which policy is best calculated to influence students in a search after truth and knowledge...