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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regained lost ground and ran off bounds. Harvard shoved well. Upton gave Harvard the ball. Harding did some good dodging and brought the play to Andover's twenty-five yard line. Trafford kicked a goal from the field. Score 41-0. During the last two minutes, Harding, although he fumbled badly, did good dodging and together with Lee carried the ball to Andover's twe ty-five yard line. The teams plaved as follows...
Frazer was poor and was working his way through college. Although he did not rank with the highest, yet his work showed great earnestness. His father's ambition, besides having his son go through college, was to collect a library for him, and he had obtained nearly five hundred volumes when fire destroyed them all. Again he set to work, and had collected about five hundred more volumes, when this sad accident occured. The class of '88 of the Boston Latin school have passed resolutions expressing their sorrow at losing so promising a member of their class...
Further you can serve the college by a wise course of elective studies. This freedom is the greatest advance made yet by any American college, and although its utility is doubted by outsiders it is apparent here at Harvard. In our work, moreover, we should strive to have some ideal; seek to cultivate a just independence of thought, and to go beyond what other men have learned. A university amasses human knowledge, stores it up and bids its students push a little farther into study...
...Although it is but five weeks before the Harvard-Yale game, the Yale team has not yet got into good trim. The men in the rushline are a little heavier than those of last year's team. The backs are about the same in weight. The second eleven scores against the first daily, and frequently holds the 'varsity down to two touchdowns. Changes may be made but the team will probably be maee up as follows...
...made some very desirable changes. Heretofore these degrees have been granted almost wholly on the basis of As received. The present scheme, however, offers a much fairer method of counting college work. By this method it is possible, for example, for a student to receive a magna cum laude although he has not received As in half of his college work-that is, by receiving the equivalent of fifteen full As and Bs. And this is only an instance. The same general fairness runs though the entire plan. The arrangement is on all accounts an estimable one, and ought...