Word: wane
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...satisfy the parties most interested in its success-why not leave it alone? The further recommendation of "making attendance at daily prayers, or at roll call, for those who do not wish to attend prayers, compulsory," is a relic of the illiberal spirit which was already on the wane twenty years ago; a spirit which it would ill become a university like Harvard to adopt...
...fully a third as large again as the entrance classes of ten years ago. In the college alone there is a gain of 124 students over last year. These facts attest that the prosperity which has marked Harvard's career in the past is not yet on the wane, and that we may look forward to the time when our classes will equal in numbers those of the large English universities. The number of scholarships has been largely increased by recent bequests, and we can assert with greater truth than ever that no man need fear, on the score...
...closing invocation is one which we are thankful to say, our faculty does not sanction; and if every game is as free from the objectionable features as Saturday's was, the career of foot-ball not only is not on the wane but has before it greater opportunities than any it has yet embraced...
...collegiate methods of instruction. While a dinner of Harvard alumni would be an impossibility in the vicinity of Boston, as no hotel would be able to accommodate such a vast throng as would appear, we may feel assured that the influence of Harvard does not wane on account of the impossibility of holding alumni dinners of their own. Even at the bluest of blue Yale assemblies, a Harvard representative is one of the honored guests, and eloquent words are not lacking in answer to the toast for Harvard. Truly the college dinner is a fountain of intellectual as well...
...large number of foot-ball games between scrub elevens this fall shows that interest in the game is by no means on the wane at Harvard. The interest too which the class games excite is by no means small. All this gives promises of exciting contests next year, should the faculty again allow us to play our old antagonists. Foot-ball is a game which cannot die even in the face of numerous discouragements. To-day the second scheduled class game is to be played, and a large number of students will doubtless turn out and support their favorites. Eighty...