Word: connections
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with considerable reluctance, therefore, that the present board of editors have made another change. There are, however, many good reasons for the change. The one which had greatest influence with the editors themselves is the fact that there is nothing in the old name immediately to connect the paper in the mind of the non-college world with Harvard. Crimson outside of the immediate vicinity of the college is probably as often thought of as the color of some other college as it is as that of Harvard. It is desirable that the paper should be plainly marked...
...their memories. It is certain that the St. Saviour's School, which formerly stood adjacent to the church, had in those early days the father of John Harvard among its governors. Amid the changes which Southwark has undergone, so that most of the ancient landmarks are obliterated which connect it with names already mentioned, the school at which Harvard may have been a pupil, and which Queen Elizabeth founded, disappeared, and the building which it now occupies, nearer Southwark bridge, is already dingy with the damp and smoke of sixty years...
...pulley weights, chest weights, rowing weights and other apparatus will be placed. This room will be used exclusively by the athletic teams. The entrance to it will be by way of the door in the east tower of the building, and another door at the north-east corner will connect it with the old dressing room. Here the candidates for the various teams will be directly under the supervision of the trainer. The plan will double the capacity of the gymnasium at an expense of not over $1,500. The upper floor will be left to the general student, where...