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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...quarter of the reductions of the bill were on the articles of the iron industry, and quoted from a wealthy iron manufacturer that the legislation on the bill was bought expressly for that purpose. Wages, too, were far from benefited, he said, and amid great applause unfurled a voluminous document, detailing the one thousand labor strikes that have taken place since the passage of the bill. Finally, the increased prosperity of the country was, not because of the bill but in spite...
...document provided for a dual league, like the one proposed to Yale two years previously. Besides, the status of amateurs was defined, a time limit of four years put on players, and playing restricted to undergraduates, provided Yale and Princeton would agree. As regards football there was this provision...
...interesting document has just been published by the Committee on Composition and Rhetoric of the Board of Overseers regarding the teaching of English in our public schools; and the amount of work disclosed which our English department undertakes appears stupendous. According to this report 12,000 compositions are read annually in English A and then returned to be rewritten, and 38,000 compositions in the whole department are handed in annually. These compositions consist of most immature thoughts written in an intelligible hand and wholly discreditable to the average age of undergraduates...
...President's report for this year, of which an abstract will be found on the front page, is as usual a document of great interest. To all the well wishers of Harvard it affords much comfort and encouragement. It shows the affairs of the University to be in a very flourishing and prosperous condition. The progress which has always been characteristic of Harvard is maintained. The constant growth of the University has necessitated changes of administration which have proved highly successful The new Faculty of Arts and Sciences has already demonstrated the wisdom of those who originated...
...Faculty meeting, an instructor of the college claimed the floor and said that he held in his hands a document of grave import to the college. This proved to be a schedule of the base ball games to be played that spring. Nineteen were to be played away from Cambridge, necessitating the almost continual absence of the members of the nine. Such a state of affairs called for action, and a committee of five was appointed by the Faculty to investigate athletics. This committee recommended the formation of a permanent committee of three. The original members were Professors White...