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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About three hundred spectators witnessed a seven-innings game yesterday between the Tufts nine and the Harvard nine. The day was raw and windy, which rendered good playing difficult. Bean and Hall pitched and caught. Olmsted, Burt and Lovering did the best batting, and Le Moyne the best fielding for Harvard. Harvard failed to score in only one inning, the fifth. Hall was injured in the fourth inning and his place was taken by Crocker. Following is a summary of the score...
...Both methods [of electives] seem to work satisfactorily, and it is difficult to form a just estimate of their comparative value. But in one important feature our system appears to have a decided advantage. The course pursued at Harvard from its very nature compels the use of the marking system, ours dispenses with it, so far at least as to attempt no nice grading of scholarship by mark...
...Advertiser says very sensibly in regard to the Bowdoin hazing case: "Exactly why the relations of students to their faculties and to each other should not be placed on the ordinary basis of social decorum, enforced, when necessary, by the appropriate legal sanctions, it is difficult to see. Many old fashions are quaint and charming; this one certainly is not. The tone of the age is against this 'peculiar institution.' Overgrown classes, eager individual work in special lines, the advanced age compelled by high standards of qualification, largely relieve the individual student from his duty as guardian of class dignity...
...from twenty to sixteen. This is one of the most desirable steps that could have been taken in the matter. In all previous years the fault has been that the audience was wearied by the large number of speeches. In addition to this, the judges have frequently found it difficult to judge decisively, at least, as to the relative merits of the candidates. These and all similar inconveniences will thus be considerably obviated...
...strengthened in the matter. If so, it is time that a decided stand and active measures be taken to work a reform. That such a plan as that proposed by the Harvard Total Abstinence League is altogether the best, we are not yet convinced It is a very difficult matter for one to make up one's mind to a decisive stand on the question. Colleges do not harbor drunkards, and total abstinence is preeminently a remedy for the cure of drunkards. The greatest influence on college men is the force of public opinion. And if there is a demand...