Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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According to the prevailing custom, the freshman class will meet this afternoon to elect their class officers and the captains of the various class teams. In former years these offices have been permanently filled at this election. If the subject be considered a little, it will be readily seen that this method of electing the athletic officers, at least, is not to be recommended to the incoming class, and is, in fact, a method not practised by any other large college...
...well known that Harvard athletics are at a low ebb; it remains for us to determine upon some plan which will bring back to us our old prestige. Articles such as that which we have quoted are one means of providing discussion, and a thorough discussion of the subject is the only way to get at a satisfactory plan of action. The boating men in college will do well to consider the article that they may see whether there are not some suggestions in it, which, if carried wholly or partially into effect, might go far towards raising Harvard...
...members of the University are entitled to register as borrowers on the presentation of the bursar's certificate. There volumes can be taken at a time, and may be kept one month, and renewed, if not in demand. Any person keeping books beyond the prescribed time is subject to a fine of ten cents a day for each volume. Books reserved by officers of instruction, and unbound periodicals, are in open alcoves in the reading-room, and can be taken out, at the close of Library hours, when properly charged at the delivery desk, and must be returned the next...
President Barnard of Columbia College has seen fit in his last annual report to state his views on a subject which is now exciting much interest throughout the college world, namely, college athletics. President Barnard recognizes the fact that much can be said on each side of the question, but his conclusion is based on arguments not altogether satisfactory. The substance of that part of the report dealing with the athletic question is as follows...
...recent years increasing attention has been continually directed to the importance of physical culture among young men in college. There is reason to believe that if the importance of this subject has not been exaggerated, at least the methods employed for encouraging it have been more or less mistaken. It is too often the case that at the beginning of a session young men are animated for a week or two by a very lively zeal to participate in athletic sports which in a brief period wears itself out; after which the gymnasium is for the most part deserted. What...