Word: yeare
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Finance Club will not probably give any more lectures this year...
...lack of rules and from the incompetence of judges at the previous winter meetings of the H. A. A. may well be rejoiced at the appearance of the new rules. But though the Executive Committee are to be commended for doing now what ought to have been done five years ago, it was, to say the least, a great mistake that the rules, announced a year ago, were not published until within a few days of the first meeting. For instance, owing to the lateness at which the rules appeared, a bar such as is requisite for carrying out fully...
...tabular view will probably be issued within a month, this is a fit time to express a hope that the abuse complained of last year in regard to the position of History 7 may not again be permitted. It is absolutely wrong, in order to convenience the instructor, to place an elective in such a position that many men will be prevented from taking it. Electives are crowded either because they are valuable or because they are easy. In the first case, students should be encouraged to take them, and if the instructor finds it inconvenient to instruct them...
...Committee on the Elective Pamphlet for next year have already begun their labors, and this interesting work will doubtless be issued in the course of a month or two. As the time when the choice of electives for next year must be made is now only two months off, we earnestly hope that the new system of Honours and Honourable Mention will receive the earliest possible attention of the Corporation and Overseers. There are very many men in college, especially in the Junior class, who will make their choice of electives partly, if not wholly, in reference...
...circumstances next July. The letters which we have published from "A Yale Graduate of '69" have given a very full account of the project and its claims to the support of college oarsmen. We regret that it seems impossible for Harvard to take any part in this regatta this year, but hope that the question of entering a crew will be carefully considered next year after the experiment has been tried for the first time. We should not desire to see anything interfere with the annual race with Yale, but if a crew could be entered without doing this...