Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...university life, of which we, as undergraduates, see but a very small part. It is certainly a pleasure to note the strides which Harvard is taking in many of the educational reforms of the day and to realize the scale on which original scientific research is being conducted. They show the growth of the university, in contrast to that of the college. The future development of Harvard, not necessarily in numbers, but in educational advantages, must be, for the most part, in the graduate and professional schools and hence we must welcome the more and more rigid requirements for admission...
...feet 2 1-2 inches. It is very probable that Mr. Sweeney will accept the invitation, and in that case he will attempt to break his own record. Considering the fact that Sweeney cleared the bar on Saturday with a good margin to spare, he is likely to show some remarkable jumping...
HARVARD-YALE TEAM RACE.The next event was the Harvard-Yale team race and the crowds had already begun to show their enthusiasm, for long before the previous event had been finished the cheering by both colleges had begun and people rose in their seats to catch a glimpse of the men as they sprinted for a few yards, in order to try the track...
Although the mid-year examinations have somewhat interrupted the training for the various athletic teams, the 'varsity crew has been hard at work in the Carey building and show much improvement over the work a few weeks ago, the general form being well advanced for this time in the year. There are now sixteen candidates for positions, not including two or three men who have not yet begun training. Cummings has not been rowing regularly being in the boat only about three times in the week...
...have all an indication that nothing which could in any way add to the equipments or the comfort of the teams has been left unbought. There has not been, it is true, such reckless expenditures of money as characterized the reports of the year before, but the reports sufficiently show that the financial management of the teams, taken all together, has not been so economical as it might have been. We make no accusation against the management of any one team, nor do we intend to specify wherein they might have been more careful in their expenditures; but, comparing...