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DRAKSIR.- I am directed by a vote of the Faculty passed this day to call your attention to the practice of certain students of "passing" and "knocking up" ball near the University building on Holmes field, e. g. the Jeffersol Laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 3/20/1890 | See Source »

...true that no highly civilized community can exist without high taxation, it is not true on the other hand that hight axation implies a highly civilized community. Taxation is no more an evil than any other desirable form of expenditure, for taxes represent the investment of a certain part of the capital of a state. It is an evil when, through the injudicious management of the state, taxation is made the instrument for extorting money for purposes foreign to the original. Taxes are generally divided into two classes-direct and indirect-although these two classes are rather vaguely defined even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hon. David A. Wells on Taxation. | 3/20/1890 | See Source »

...Owsley, '92 S., Bowers, '93, and Lockhart, of the Law School. The uniforms are similar to those of last year. Calboun will play second base, McBride first, and Owsley third; McClung, shortstop; Cushing, Dalzell and McClintock in the outfield, and Bowers, Sturtevant, and Poole will catch. It is tolerably certain that Stagg will pitch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/18/1890 | See Source »

...best thesis by a candidate for honors in Modern Languages and English will be greeted with pleasure. The more numerous such prizes can be, the better, as they undoubtedly stimulate candidates, and form an additional reason for doing good work on theses that are now perhaps to a certain extent perfunctory. At Yale the Hugh Chambertain prize for the best entrance paper in Greek is considered a great honor. This new prize at harvard will have a similar effect and will also have the advantage of causing the production of good pieces of work with less expenditure of time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/14/1890 | See Source »

...football squad, and the proposed plan of managing the Weld boat house, are all steps toward this end. When the whole college plays football, when every man practises with the oar or the bat, there will be no lack of material and enthusiasm for university teams. Besides the certain improvement in Harvard teams resulting from this movement, the benefit to the students at large will be great. They will all have an opportunity to take an active share in the sports and the old complaint of athletics' being confined to a few experts will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/13/1890 | See Source »

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