Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that no member of the University who lives within the limits of Old Cambridge will let the day pass without subscribing his name in support of so worthy an object as that of the improvement of the post office. The needs of the office are so plain that no comment of ours should be required to convince any one of the necessity for immediate action on the part of the authorities at Washington. The question which will probably come to the minds of most men will probably be as to just why members of the University should concern themselves with...
...football question. Statements have now been issued by the athletic authorities of both universities and upon the real merits of these statements, Harvard men need have no fear to rest the issue. We should be inclined to let Manager Foote's announcement in yesterday's Yale News pass without comment, as too utterly disingenuous to deserve a can did consideration, were it not for the fact that by making it appear that Professor Ames has acted arbitrarily and even tyrannically, Mr. Foote has left it to be inferred by the general public that Harvard undergraduates have held a passive...
...first number of the American Historical Review has lately appeared. The form and contents of the number are excellently thought out, and need but little comment. The editorial salutatory has been intrusted to Professor William Sloane, whose theme is "History and Democracy." He argues hopefully from the popularity of histories in this country against the notion that democracy is unfavorable to a high order of productiveness in this branch of belles lettres, or that a temporary exhaustion is manifest...
...large majority of those who are interested in college athletics. The history of the events in this unfortunate controversy, may be briefly stated as follows: Harvard was beaten by Yale at Springfield in the annual game last fall. Although there were certain features of that game which received adverse comment in practically all of the leading papers of the country, nothing happened which, in the eyes of the Harvard team, or of the Harvard athletic authorities, would prevent the teams of the two universities from meeting in friendly rivalry another year. Accordingly, Harvard, as the defeated team, challenged Yale...
Yesterday afternoon there began in the University Museum a public exhibition of birds that is sure to attract much attention and considerable favorable comment. It is a collection of some 250 specimens collected and mounted by Mr. W. E. D. Scott. The birds were arranged in 50 neat cases about one of the rooms. Mr. Scott was in attendance to explain the purposes of the exhibition and the philosophy of the arrangements...