Word: comments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...increased number of men who have returned this year for post-graduate studies Harvard has cause for self-congratulation. There can be no comment more favorable to the intellectual status of a college than the fact that, after the fascination in college life pure and simple has passed away at their graduation, the alumni return either to the Law School, the Medical School, or for advanced study in the Graduate Department. Eighty-eight has, in this respect, shown commendable loyalty to its Alma Mater, and the officers and professors of the university should feel in this an assurance that their...
...become such an old story to chronicle the defeat of Harvard freshman teams at New Haven, that were it not for special circumstances in connection with Saturday's game, it could be passed over without comment. In the first place, the weather and the condition of the field were such that the game should never have taken place, and secondly, the lead once so firmly established in Harvard's hands should never have been relaxed. With the score standing seven to nothing up to the fifth inning. any attempts to explain the loss of the game satisfactorily cannot...
...following editorial, which appeared in the last Nation, needs no comment...
...expenses, such as theatres and parties, where an increase is made, are for the very luxuries from which the athlete is debarred. This leaves as in the catalogue the columns, Least (assisted), Economical, Moderate (modest), and Very Liberal (well to do), besides three higher grades which need but casual comment. In the lowest grade the estimate for rooms and gas is $44. This must include fuel also, for the author later gives the price of the cheapest rooms as $25 and the least expenditure for gas, $9; and since fuel is not given as a separate item, it is probably...
There has been much sarcastic and unjust comment by the daily press of the country upon the award of the Bowdoin prize. This comment was aroused by an article which has been going the rounds and which was full of misrepresentations. The facts in the case are clearly stated in a letter from Professor H. W. Torrey, one of the judges, to the Boston Post. Of the three judges appointed to examine the essays, Professor Torrey alone had read the Aunex essay, when it was recalled by the dean as ineligible for the prize, because of the conditions of candidature...