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Dates: during 1870-1879
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From these considerations it would seem that Harvard herself hardly knows what she is. While the mark for a degree is low enough to allow all who so desire to enter and secure one, the number of required studies is being diminished, and experiments are being tried in voluntary recitations. The direction in which the policy is tending to advance is plain; as yet, however, while such a mixture of regulations exists, Harvard would seem to partake largely of the nature of a what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD, - WHAT IS IT? | 3/10/1876 | See Source »

...remove the slight misunderstanding under which the Yale papers seem to be laboring, we will state briefly the present condition of affairs in regard to the arrangements for the next Yale-Harvard base-ball match. The first game will be played in New Haven, the second in Cambridge, and the third in Springfield. The misunderstanding which caused the Record to speak of us in terms more forcible than polite resulted from the fact that the two Nines in fixing the time for the match found difficulty in finding three days which would be equally convenient for both sides, and also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

AMONG this singular people -the aborigines of the Mississippi Valley -the chief deities appear to have been Munnee and his wife Boshor. Their story is very obscure, but the most recent investigations seem to show that they came from the land of the rising sun, and found, in the country of the mound-builders, a hopelessly savage people. With the aid of the magic power which they drew from the sun, they gained complete control of the whole region, but they were at first unable to civilize the natives. The aboriginal race had sunk to such a depth of degradation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RELIGION AND MORALS OF THE MOUND-BUILDERS. | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

...officers are, in an official capacity, completely separated from their fellow-boarders; they become absolute, as regards these latter, though they are fettered in some most important respects by the restrictions which the Corporation has been able to impose, while obtaining from us, at the same time, what would seem to be a most profitable investment for their money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEORY OF GOVERNMENT AT MEMORIAL HALL. | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

...membership and success of the clubs, and would save continual trouble and much complex organization. By adding new members it would give yet more material for the crews, and as each club would still elect its own captain, the races would lose none of their interest. It would certainly seem for the interest both of the clubs and of the individual members that some such reform as this be effected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOAT-CLUB SYSTEM. | 2/11/1876 | See Source »

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