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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...customary the first pages of the Index contain the various social and literary organizations. The papers, the departmental clubs, the religious societies, the literary societies, the social clubs, the musical organizations, the school clubs, the state clubs, etc.- all are arranged most systematically, each by itself. In the list of class secretaries a change has been made. In the last Index when the secretary of a class was not known, it was so designated; this year, not only is the fact designated, but the name of some prominent member of the class is added...
...Cambridge stood at the head of the list of 45 cities in the union in which trustworthy statistics were taken. Its death rate was only 17.5 in 1000 while the death rate in the whole state of Massachusetts was about 20 in 1000. The death rate in the state between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five is only eight or nine in one thousand. In the district of Cambridge in which the college buildings are situated, the death rate is only about nine in one thousand for all ages, no higher than the death rate for the most favored...
Last Friday Professor J. H. Wright of the Greek Department read a paper entitled "The Aims of the Classical Teacher" before the High school department of the Mass. State Teachers' Association...
...college which has just defeated Harvard as by any desire for purity in athletics. In regard to the withdrawal from the league, Harvard's position is "frank and honorable." The resolution to withdraw is a firm "declaration on Harvard's part that she has become dissatisfied with the state of intercollegiate athletics" Harvard does not profess to be much better than her neighbors; she confesses her sins, and, as some one must make a stand, she does it. The second resolution, however, undoes everything the first one accomplishes. The first resolution is a step towards purity in college athletics...
...Professor Sloane, of the committee on out door sports, desires to state that after extensive inquiry and the exercise of due diligence he endorses as true to the best of his knowledge and belief the following statement, which we herewith make in regard to pecuniary or academic compensation...