Word: showings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard who have graduated from Phillips Andover Academy will hold a dinner at the Parker House. The object of this dinner is to give those men who have recently entered college an opportunity of meeting and of becoming acquainted with the upperclass men; and also to show those students now at Andover who are as yet undecided as to which college they shall go to complete their education, that here at Harvard, they will find pleasant acquaintances, and agreeable surroundings. We comment upon this dinner because we believe it to be a step in the right direction; a step which...
...most importance to the college is the elaborate editorial filling several pages near the end of the number. Its aim is to stimulate men to become more than mere plodders or idlers along the intellectual highway; to show the vast superiority of those students who. putting aside the petty spirit which drives men to work for marks or examinations alone, adopt instead an ultimate idea of true and broad culture. An abuse too prevalent at Harvard-the nursing system of private tutors-is treated with the open and unqualified contempt it deserves. If the Monthly continues thus ably to discuss...
...depends upon the condition of the roads, which were declared to be in good order yesterday. Technology has a flourishing club and will make strenuous efforts to make Harvard take second place. Whoever wins, the energy displayed by the Harvard Bicycle Club in perfecting the arrangements for this race show that the management of the club is in able and efficient hands...
...opposition to an established precedent, if it were to vote the money to the crew management. Nothing is surer than that the crew will need the financial aid of every man in the class, and if the members vote to turn this amount over to the crew, they will show that they intend to furnish the financial support which is so necessary for the success of Niney-two's interests on the water...
...wish to congratulate the freshman football management on the possission of such a large surplus at the end of the season. It shows that the class funds have been well cared for when such a considerable amount remains after all expenses have been paid. We cannot, however, fully endorse the sentiments expressed in a communication in another column, as to the use which shall be made of the surplus. We think that before any of the surplus is paid over to the crew, some recognition should be taken of the work done by the freshman eleven this year. The class...