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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first hour examination in History 1 will take place Thursday of next week, instead of Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/14/1889 | See Source »

...Literary Association will be held in Hamilton Hall. An oration, an essay, and a debate on the question of coeducation, will compose the exercises. The great event of the college year will be on February 4, when the inauguration of Mr. Sech Low as president of the college will take place in the Metropolitan Opera House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia College Notes. | 12/13/1889 | See Source »

Each man was asked to sign a paper stating events in which he had taken part or intended to take part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANDIDATES FOR THE MOTT HAVEN TEAM. | 12/12/1889 | See Source »

...during the last thirty years. The methods of teaching the principal subjects have fundamentally changed at Harvard within twenty years, and I suppose it is the case in other colleges. If, therefore, we are right in our present methods, what good would it do to teach the old methods? Take, for instance, the study of Natural Science. The method of teaching it twenty years ago was worse than useless. How long is it that a reasonable method of teaching natural science has been in use? About fifteen years at the outside. So in the twenty years I have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT ELIOT ON PEDAGOGY. | 12/12/1889 | See Source »

...foot ball eleven. The gentleman in question was not Captain Linn, nor am I able to give the official connection with the Harvard associate of the gentleman who approached me. However, the overtures were made, and my reply at the time was as has already been stated, and I take no interest in college athletics, and would not under any consideration engage in athletics for emoluments, or under considerations other than those of personal enjoyment. Very respectfully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL HARVARD EXPLAIN THIS? | 12/11/1889 | See Source »

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