Word: secret
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...take interest enough in its success to correct any abuses which may have crept into the management, it is hardly probable that taking the contest out of their hands will cause any great wave of enthusiastic interest in the fate of the nine to sweep over the college. The secret of our success in those branches of athletics where we have been successful-base-ball and foot-ball-is that here everything is in the hands of undergraduates and that consequently every undergraduate takes a personal interest in the work of the nine and eleven...
...recent announcement that the pseudonym "J. S. of Dale" concealed no other than Mr. Frederick G. Stinson, a graduate of the class of 1876, at Harvard, is not at all in the nature of news to the many readers of this popular novel "Guerndale." The secret of his authorship had transpired long before Mr. Stinson felt it convenient to give his authority to the rumor. The announcement was made we believe, at about the time of Mr. Stinson's application for admission to the author's club of New York...
...against secret societies at Vanderbilt University has been removed...
...vice-president, Mr. W. A. Halbert, '85. The question under debate was, "Resolved, That the requirement of Greek for admission to Harvard College should be abolished." The principal disputants were: Affirmative, Hibbard, '84, Roundy, '85 ; negative, Barnes, '84, E. B. Young, '85. Previous to the debate a secret ballot was held on the merits of the question, which resulted in a vote of, affirmative 24, negative, 32. The debate was then thrown open to the house and the following members spoke from the floor: Affirmative, Messrs. Bowen, '85, Merriam, '86, Gray, '87, Fraser, '86, W. B. Schofield, '87, Storrow...
...correspondent writes from Yale to a New York paper that he thinks her inferiority in boating is largely caused by the close policy carried out by the managers of the Yale navy. It has been their policy during the last few years to keep everything about the 'varsity crew secret, and to allow no one to approach them white on the water. They never pull against another crew till they meet us for the final tug on the Thames. The only method which they have of ascertaining what speed their crew can get on is that of time rows...