Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Class elevens are to be formed this year and any good material which is discovered in the class games will be devoted to the 'varsity eleven. Candidates for all the class elevens began practice on the new field behind Divinity Hall yesterday...
During the present week competative trials will be held by the Glee club and Banjo club preparatory to the year's work. Both of these organizations are university institutions and are supposed to represent the best musical talent of their sort in college. That this may be realized it is earnestly desired that all men who play or sing with any fair degree of proficiency should present themselves at the trials of both clubs. In no other way will Harvard be justly represented on the Christmas trip of the Glee and Banjo clubs...
...CRIMSON board for the first half year will be constituted as follows...
Unusual efforts have been made by the faculty this year to devise some means whereby freshmen entering college may have the benefit of mature advice, and these efforts have resulted in the choice of certain professors as advisors of the freshman class both in the choice of college studies and in all matters of student interest. We cannot commend this innovation too highly since it guards against one of the most considerable-in fact almost the only important evil of the elective system-the possibility of immature choices...
Keeping in purpose, also, to this system is the plan adopted last evening in the lecture delivered by President Eliot to those students who have come to Harvard this year for the first time. We welcome most heartily all efforts such as these for the establishment of better relations between students and faculty, and for the uplifting of student opinions and standards. Through such methods only can we hope for the development of that which is highest in student character...