Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...petition for a more adequate surface car system in Harvard square. Nine plans and many palliative suggestions have been submitted. It is necessary that the new transfer station be convenient to the surface roads and to the proposed elevated railroad which will run out Mount Auburn street. For this reason, the plan of an island station in Mount Auburn street, east of Brattle square, as proposed by President Eliot, appeared to the board to be on the whole the most expedient for radical and permanent relief...
Thus there has been an advance, and although it is not sufficient to give reason for over-confidence, certainly Harvard debating men can feel satisfied that this year will not go down in debating annals as of little significance...
...seat to Dalzell '99, who is much heavier and a splendid oarsman. Strong as the crew may be, Mr. Courtney is not a little worried lest out of the remaining candidates he shall not be able to pick a crew which shall push the 'varsity. This was no small reason for Cornell's success last year...
...five shells were considerably damaged, one especially so, and for this reason it would be impossible to keep the men training through the recess. The race has been given up for this year...
...made by several graduates for a trophy known as the Beacon Cup which was first offered in 1858 as a prize for the winners of the "Beacon Cup Regatta," and from 1866 to '77 was instituted as a prize for the spring class races. After '77 for some unaccountable reason it was no longer offered for the class races, and it was not until after considerable inquiring that it was finally found in the safe at the bursar's office where it had lain undisturbed for twenty years. The cup is a large silver goblet inscribed all over with...