Word: specials
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...special number of the Cambridge Tribune will be published next Friday. It is to be illustrated with pictures of interest to Harvard men. It will contain all information about Class Day needed by visitors, and will be an excellent souvenir of the occasion. The most notable illustration will be the reproduction of a copper-plate engraving of the college buildings in 1775 made by Paul Revere. The plate has been preserved in the Massachusetts State archives. The price of the paper will be five cents. Advance orders for numbers to be mailed out of town may be left...
...board of overseers held a special meeting Wednesday, the Hon. Charles R. Codman in the chair. A committee consisting of Messrs. Green, Hoar, Lee, Lincoln and Peabody was appointed to present appropriate resolutions on the deaths of R. D. Smith and James Freeman Clarke, members of the board. The report of the faculty on athletics was presented by President Eliot, and laid upon the table. It was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in their appointments as follows...
...partial or total abandonment of the much-dreaded finals and mid-years. In the foreign universities, the only examinations are those required for a degree; and even these are not answers to a paper, but consist of carefully prepared theses. In those courses here in which theses and special reports are required there is no excuse for the present system, and several instructors have already realized this to such an extent that they give no mid-year papers. The evils of grinding are too well known to require mention, but the instructors can hardly be a ware of the actual...
...special athletic meeting was held by the Yale Athletic Association at Hamilton Park last week, at which Sherrill broke the Yale record of 220 yards from 22 2-5 seconds to 22 1-5 seconds. This time is almost as fast as that made by Wendell Baker, who coved the distance in 22 seconds. Griswold, '90, ran an exhibition half-mile in 2m. 10s. He made the first quarter in 58 1-2 seconds, which was too fast for good time in the half. The timers were Trowbridge, '82 S., and Coxe, '87. The judges were Hinckley, '89, McCormick...
...recent 250th anniversary at Exeter, free wine and beer flowed in the streets, and by a special act of the town council no arrests were made for drunkenness...