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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...especially should feel proud of the success which has attended the management of the school, as our Greek department was foremost in suggesting the practicability and importance of the present step. Moreover, the first director was selected from among our professors, and the chairman of the managing committee, in whose hands is placed the general management and supervision of the school, is also among the professors of our Greek department...
...Athens. The first director, it will be remembered, was Prof. W. W. Goodwin, and the present director is Prof. Packard of Yale, who will be succeeded by Prof. Van Benschoten of Wesleyan, for the year 1884-85. During the last year the committee in whose hands lies the management of this school has been changed by the addition of Prof. D'Ooge, of the University of Michigan, and by the resignation of Prof. Gurney of Harvard, who was one of the prime starters in the establishment of the school...
...Sargent, of the Harvard College gymnasium, is not in favor of training men for specialties. He says "I do not want to train up a small body of specialists, of gymnasts whose ability would equal that of professionals. I did that once in another college, and the result was that it practically killed general athletics there. The interest there has almost wholly died out, because the standard of excellence in these special departments has never been equalled since." The doctor is satisfied with the physical improvement of the Harvard athletes. He has made over 550 examinations so far this year...
...society, bought goods at its store, presenting the ticket of a member, and purporting to be a member. This student, who was at the time admitted to the society by the clerk, has been expelled by vote of the board ; and the board has expressed to the member whose ticket was presented by him, their disapprobation of the member's course in enabling the ticket to be misused. Should cases of this kind re-occur in the future, the board will feel compelled to use all means in their power, such as publication of the names of the offenders...
...batting was quite heavy. The only thing that marred the playing of the Harvard nine was the poor base-running, several points being lost by reckless coaching. In this one respect the playing of the nine should be much improved before we meet such opponents as Yale or Princeton, whose superiority in this respect is well known. The exhibition of umpiring was unparalleled, many of the decisions being so absurd as to excite the derision of the spectators...