Word: tends
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...game to other colleges. The adoption of a modified list of playing rules by the convention was a move of great importance for the future of the game. These, if published, will afford all an opportunity to acquire acquaintance with the theory of the game, and this will tend to add great interest to it for outsiders...
...does the recent change in athletics at Harvard and giving more fully than can be learned from any other source the views of the committee on the subject, together with the complete results of their investigation, would be of great interest to the students. Its publication would tend to strengthen the mutual understanding existing between the faculty and students...
...graduate courses to under-graduates is but another step toward the perfection of the elective system. On a par in importance with this are the new requirements in regard to the anticipation of a part or the whole of the freshman required course. Both of these changes tend toward the same result - the encouragement of specialties. According to these regulations, a man may anticipate his freshman required work and pursue one subject throughout his college course. The offer of "honors" to special students is also a new feature in the same general line as those just mentioned. Any person...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: As it is highly desirable and beneficial that the friendliest of relations should continually exist between instructor and student, anything which can possibly tend to disturb such relations should be promptly discouraged. The affair of last Friday morning in the geology section may perhaps be regarded as the culmination of an ill-feeling which has been constantly increasing since the beginning of the term. Although it is certainly not desirable to have loose management in conducting recitations, yet the youthful rules and practices of grammar schools seem to be sadly out of place in our college recitation...
...match of the 25th, the rules in both instances failing to check these objectionable features. The fact is, our colleges will never play a legitimate foot-ball game until they adopt a code of rules similar to those of the London Foot-ball Association. The existing rules tend to make the college game a mere wrestling match between elevens, instead of individuals, in which weight and muscle have greater influence on the result than strategic skill. This shows faulty construction in the rules of any game. - [Clipper...