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...carrying it into execution; and this, it must be confessed, is a serious drawback. If the change in the construction of these bridges should be made, it would be done at the expense of the city of Cambridge or of the State, according as one or the other has control of the bridges. Neither would have any advantage in making the change, and unless a very strong petition could be presented to the proper authorities it would be useless to attempt to induce them to do anything about it. Nevertheless, the construction of the arches would be of so much...
...large number of colleges and the opportunities for sharp practice that arise, Harvard is forced to row with a set of men against whom charges like those recently made in the Advertiser may be plausibly put forward; that the unwieldiness of the Association almost places it beyond its own control:- when these grievances, together with many others that might be mentioned, are considered, no one can doubt that Harvard has abundant reason for taking up her connection with the Association, and adopting a new system of University racing...
...WETHERBEE, Sec, and Treas.OWING to the dissatisfaction with the management of the Athletic Sports at Saratoga last year, a separate organization, to have control of such sports in future, was organized by a convention in Springfield on Saturday, under the name of "The Athletic Association of American Colleges." G. W. Green of Harvard was President of the convention, and F. Marquand of Princeton, Secretary; and ten colleges were represented, as follows: Amherst, L. G. Beck; Columbia, Randolph Hurry, James A. Renwick; Cornell, A. M. Ensign; Harvard, G. W. Green; Princeton, W. T. Kauffman, F. A. Marquand; Trinity, J. D. McKennan...
...deny the justice of the Advocate's complaint that it receives very few articles from the lower classes, we would venture to suggest that, if there is time, a few themes in the Freshman year would be a great improvement, for it is very rarely that men gain much control of their pens till the middle of the Sophomore year...
...occasion of one of her public dinners, at which John Hancock was invited to a seat with the Governors of the College; and, again, we see the same man elected Treasurer of the College in 1773. All this time republican principles and patriotic ideas were gaining the control of students as well as instructors...