Word: similar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...proposition for a boat race. The Cornell navy accepts the proposition of the Yale University Boat Club for a four mile, eight oared race the coming season at the place and time named by Yale, provided Cornell be allowed in return to name the place and time of a similar race for next year. Cornell expresses furthermore her acceptance of Yale's suggestion to merge the race of this year, Harvard willing, in a triangular race with Harvard...
...policy which can not be too strongly recommended. The more graduates as well as present members of the two Universities can be brought together socially the better it will be for both. The spirit of friendliness and co-operation, which is natural between institutions whose aims are so similar, and whose members, as individuals, are so sure to come into contact with each other after graduation, is sure be strengthened by this means. We hope that more such meetings can be held in the future...
...seems to me, as I think of some of those sons of Harvard whose death in recent years we regret so much, Greenhalge and Russell, Phillips Brooks, and Charles Eliot of my own class, and of football fame our friend Newell, William H. Manning who met his death under similar conditions with true Christian heroism, Edward T. Cabot, Samuel Dexter and Alward, that we ought to rejoice and be thankful that they were with us and that their lives were what they were, rather than to lament that their lives were not as long as we would have wished...
There is no better proof of the vigor of intellectual life among Harvard students than the unflagging interest with which numerous similar clubs are maintained, and their success in bringing prominent men of learning before the University. The work is done quietly, but it is none the less valuable...
Question: "Resolved, That a system of marking, similar to that in use at Chicago University, be substituted for the present system at Harvard...