Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...near approach of the freshman athletic meeting induces us to call the attention of eighty-nine to the importance of furnishing a full field of entries for all the events on the programme. It has become the custom of the college to watch closely the result of these freshman field sports. Every winner is carefully noticed, not so much from any great interest in his success in the particular event he happens to be contesting, but because his performance is taken as a measure by which to judge of the future strength or weakness of our Mott Haven...
...senior and sophomore classes are to be heartily congratulated on the balance sheets exhibited by the gentlemen who have had in charge the financial management of their respective class crews. In these days of enromous expenditures and dismal deficits a class which is able even to approach solvency has come to be regarded as a sort of collegiate prodigy, of whose deeds coming undergraduates will read with wonder...
...near approach of the fall meetings held by the Athletic Association induces us to say a word to the freshmen on the subject of track athletics. The Mott Haven Cup has now been ours for six consecutive years. To bring it again to Cambridge will require the most strenuous efforts on the part of the, whole college. The loss met with every year by the graduation of the athletes in the senior class can be made good only by recruits from among the freshmen. From them, then, the college expects a strong delegation to compete for the vacant places...
...resolution to entrust the conduct of such celebrations to the good sense of the students alone, passed the faculty by what was practically a unanimous vote. An approach to unanimity is not of very frequent occurrence when that body votes on matters of general policy, and in this case it proves how strong a desire now exists there to let the students govern themselves, wherever such government appears likely to succeed...
...near approach of the Yale and Columbia 'varsity races and the Columbia freshman race, naturally turns the attention of the college to the work of the crews. We are unfortunately so situated that the trouble attendant upon getting to the boat-house is so great that the majority of the students prefer to stroll over to Holmes to watch the work of the nine rather than to go down to the river to note what is being done in the boats. That the college may have some idea of the state of the crews we purpose to print during...