Word: recommendation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Instead of frankly following up the principle of action indicated by the admitted evils, and expressed in the report of the large majority of its committee, they have adopted the minority report, but with modifications which make it even more unpalatable to the undergraduates. They recommend confining the contests to university teams and virtually to New England colleges, saying that such contests "should take place only in Cambridge, New Haven, and such other New England city or town as the committee on athletics may from time to time designate." Moreover, the time for holding them should be only Saturdays...
...contest of skill. The main work of a student is to get an education, and athletics should be no more important before graduation than afterwards. No good comes from intercollegiate contests, and better results will follow if the competition is confined to members of this college. The committee recommend the adoption of the following votes...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I should like to bring into general prominence through the columns of your paper a feeling which is growing stronger and stronger every day, against a certain custom now in vogue here, which has nothing better than a precedent of three years' standing to recommend and sustain it. I refer to the existing college sentiment which gives the exclusive right of wearing broad black and red striped blazers to members of the University teams. It seems odd that the Harvard colors, which belong by right to every man in the University, should be restricted by a nonsenical...
...what must be and what ought to be spent. It is only of importance to find the answer to the latter question and upon this answer the allowances given by careful parents should be based. Professor Palmer has helped very much in the solution of the problem; and we recommend his statement to all who have an interest in the reputation of Harvard. In conclusion, we fully agree with a writer who has said that when the limit of legitimate expenditure has been shown, the impulse to economy must come from the homes of the student and not from...
...County Cricket Concert of England held at Lord's sometime ago, it was moved "that the attention of the M. C. C. (Marylebone Cricket Club) be called to the unsatisfactory effect of Law 24, and to recommend that it shall be so altered as to read that a batsman shall be out if, with any part of his person being in a straight line from wicket to wicket, he stop the ball which, in the opinion of the umpire would have hit the wicket." A long debate followed, at the end of which the motion was carried by a vote...