Word: takings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dr.Brooks spoke about the peculiar features of college life. It is a life which a man takes up on entering and puts aside when his college days are over. College life is an insoluble puzzle to people of the outer world. Of late there has been a noticeable increase of interest in religions matters at Harvard, and it gives great satisfaction to all who make the welfare of the University their interest. The standard of scholarship will be raised by this religious movement, and men will take a greater interest in others welfare. One of the worst evils of college...
...coaches in New York have been engaged for the Yale-Harvard game, and an enterprising crowd of Harvard men are going to take down a coach from Boston...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- We take great pride in our University; we would not go to any other college so long as Harvard existed; we rejoice at the spirit of progress which has put us at the head of all the institutions of learning in this country. But sometimes we complain, and perhaps occasionally are unreasonable in our demands. The college authorities are by no means obdurate, for they have many times responded to the pleadings of the students, but to several of our entreaties they turn a deaf ear. In yesterday's CRIMSON was a communication asking for lights...
...freshmen two years ago, but the fact that they did not know how to row well enough in rough water, and so did not reach the finish-but the bottom-first has nothing to do with the matter. It is a good thing when a college knows how to take a defeat, even if they are occasional...
...this is extremely necessary if the project of going to England to row with Oxford is entertained. If they go there it will take from $6,000 to $10,000, and the Yale alumni don't want to go to that expense unless they are sure they can send over a winning crew. If Yale is not dispirited and disheartened this year at foot-ball, and if the University crew shows up in good form the English boys many have a chance to test the excellence of the Yale crew.- N. Y. Herald...