Word: theses
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WE have made arrangements by which we shall be able to publish hereafter in every issue a statement of the progress made by the candidates for the University crew. The candidates are being worked, to a large extent, according to the principles laid down in Woodgate's "Rowing Manual," and...
THE Pall Mall Gazette, in regard to the challenge Cornell has sent to England, says: "It is to be regretted if the refusal of Cambridge to row should be interpreted, as very likely it will be, into a confession of fear of the prowess of American oarsmen. But the truth...
"I have served for half a dozen years on the academical examining committee appointed by the Harvard Overseers, and have been assigned, during several of these years, to the sub-committee on Greek. I confidently assert that Harvard College produces better Greek scholars than it produced thirty years ago. That...
The information reaches us a little indirectly, but we dare say that the statement, coming from such high authority, is in the main correct. We do not, however, remember any past Commencement when the whole class performed, so we are led to suspect that this is a new device which...
"It is impossible to trace in these figures the operation of any rule connecting scholarship with the more or less free use of the privilege in question. Upon the whole, then, the fair deduction from the returns of last year, whether they are examined with respect to average results, or...