Word: statement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...yesterday the most exaggerated rumors were flying about the college concerning the management of the sale of tickets for the Yale game, and it is due to all parties that an exact statement of the facts in the case be made. In the first place there was ignorance as the exact number of seats put on sale and as to the reasons why more seats were not offered. Of the 4,500 seats on the Harvard side of the field, 1,000 were exacted by the municipal authorities of Springfield before a permit for the game would be issued...
...sport demands a change. There has undoubtedly been great improvement in the game during the past half dozen years, but there is certainly room for just as great improvement in the future. The interscholastic game which was played on Norton Field yesterday afternoon gives weight to this statement, and emphasizes Mr. Leeds' assertion that the 'varsity elevens by their example are teaching the schools the same faults which characterize their own play. The game between the Hopkinson School and the Manual Training School teams was one of the roughest played in Cambridge this year. Nothing is more essential...
...large as many of the scholarships which are assigned from year to year, but their permanent characters make them particularly desirable. They add quite a sum to the great amount which Harvard is already giving every year to needy students, and come as an emphasis to the statement made in the catalogue that "good scholars of high character but slender means are very rarely obliged to leave college for want of money...
...third number of the Advocate is the best. number of the year, al though this statement should not lead anyone to infer that all the articles are unusually good, for they are not. But, taken as a whole. this issue shows a decided improvement over the first two of this year...
...members of the graduate school at the college. The total number of students at the Annex this year is 215, a gain of 41 over the 174 of 1890 '91. The gain for the year will doubtless be still larger, as several more students are expected. A detailed statement by classes of the numbers for this year and last follows...