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...Universities of Oxford and Cambridge have had a quarrel about the date of their boat race. Cambridge has suggested either April 1st or 2nd. To either of these dates Oxford objects on account of the inconvenient tides on those days. Oxford suggests March 22. Cambridge is not willing to row so early because their "crew needs at least three weeks practice at Putney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The English Crews. | 2/13/1890 | See Source »

...disregarded the advice of this committee. He recommends that "all practice should be at home and only with other organizations within the same college; that in each sport there should be one, two, or three intercollegiate contests, the interest of which should not be lessened by any inferior competitions either before or afterwards." This means that the university nine and eleven should have two or three matches a year with Yale. and no other games except with second and class teams. The reasons for this restriction are that the present training is too hard, that too few men participate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/8/1890 | See Source »

...prescribed courses the greatest number of students in any one course was 250 in Fine Arts 3, and the next greatest number was 232 in Political Economy 1. From this the number descends to one there being ten courses with only one students in each, all of them either advanced language courses or courses for special research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Report of the Dean of Harvard College. | 2/8/1890 | See Source »

Week-day morning prayers at 8.45 a. m. No seats are assigned, either for officers or classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 2/8/1890 | See Source »

...right conduct of college sports is that all practice should be done at home and only with other organizations within the same college; that in each sport there should be one, two, or three intercollegiate contests, the interest of which should not be based by any inferior competitions either before or afterwards." He disapproves of freshman intercollegiate sports and considers that no student should take part in intercollegiate contests for more than three years. Betting should be done away with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President's Report for 1888-89. | 2/7/1890 | See Source »