Word: suchness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Yale, also, has had such contests. The programme at one of these which took place about a year ago, consisted of long walking and running races, short dashes of two hundred yards or so, running and standing, high and long jumps, hurdle racing, and throwing the base ball.
Now, here is quite a field for any one aspiring to athletic honors, and it seems as if it would be a good thing to form an Athletic Club here, which might, if desirable, have matches with Yale, or even an intercollegiate contest, if such a thing were practicable.
IN a recent number of the Advocate there appeared an article dealing severely with those who dare to complain of the instruction Harvard furnishes. Forgetting that few men feel at liberty to mention special cases, and forgetting, too, that, were this done, an article would be rendered unfit for publication...
Very likely the critic is not able to take full advantage of all the opportunities now offered. With the present system of chums and compulsory recitations few are enabled to do as much as they demand of themselves in preparation for the class-room, much less can they accomplish all...
In our Sophomore and Junior years there are certain required studies to which professors are assigned by the Faculty. To have these instructors elected by the students would, of course, be absurd, and is too illusory a hope to be cherished a moment in the undergraduate mind. Since these studies...