Word: states
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...centre posts will be 19 feet high, each capped with sandstone brought from Yorkshire, England. On the front of the centre posts there will be bas reliefs of the arms of Harvard College and the city of Cambridge, and on the back of the pillar the arms of the State of Massachusetts and an inscription. All the ironwork is hand wrought instead of welded, to give it the appearance of an old style of architecture. The gate when finished will be very effective, and will add a great deal to the beauty of the yard...
...second takes a different ground and attributes our ill success to our social system. It argues that the athletics of the freshman class have their interests turned aside by their election to a sophomore society, "which takes his time and strength away from his athletics." This leads to a state where "athletics are in the hands of a chosen minority-chosen upon a social basis," and demands a reform in our social system...
...adjourned meeting of the Harvard board of overseers was held last Thursday forenoon at No. 50 State St. with Hou. Charles R. Codman, president, in the chair. It was voted to concur in the following appointments made by the president and fellows of Harvard College: Hans C. G. Von Jagemann, Ph. D., assistant professor of German for five years from September 1, 1889; Robert Sanderson, assistant professor of French for five years from September 1, 1889; Frederic Cesaer Sumichrast, assistant professor of French for five years from September 1 1889; Alfred B. Nichols, instructor in German for 1889-90; Lyman...
Board of Overseers. Adjourned meeting at No. 50 State Street, Boston...
...freshman class to the number of about sixty responded to the call for a mass meeting last evening in Massachusetts Hall. The meeting was called to order by President Rantoul who stated that its object was to consider a constitution to govern Harvard-Yale freshman athletics. Mr. L. McKim Garrison, L. S., in behalf of several graduates presented the constitution. He called attention to the present unsatisfactory state of athletic contests, the constant disputes about membership of teams and the frequent indefiniteness of the results. These difficulties, he said, the constitution was intended to obviate. The freshmen then proceeded...