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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often wonder in your senior year at your freshman self-assertion and wisdom. It is not our purpose to discourage you-far from that-on the contrary we extend to you our warmest greetings as Harvard men, and yet we are desirous of warning you against the indiscretions so common to men entering college. At this early period of your college career we urge you to be discreet, when it will often prove far easier to be rash, and earnest when you will find it pleasanter to be superficial. Some day we assure you, the time will come when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/28/1889 | See Source »

...entrance to the Gymnasium will be at the main entrance, the exit at the side door facing the Common...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 6/15/1889 | See Source »

...Goes too far back on the finish, a common fault with the crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Departure of the Crews for New London. | 6/14/1889 | See Source »

...Absent-minded; has improved since class races, but has the common fault of rushing at full reach, and is slow in getting the power on his oar; hits the water on his recovery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Departure of the Crews for New London. | 6/14/1889 | See Source »

...expected to be annually re-enacted, with such amendments as may be hereafter found necessary. After they have been in force three years (beginning with the class of 1893, they will be held to definitely bind future freshman classes). They may be amended at any time by common consent of Yale and Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Constitution for the Freshman Class. | 6/13/1889 | See Source »

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