Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this last opportunity of urging all active members of the Harvard undergraduate papers to sign immediately for the Press dinner, to be held tomorrow night. This is the first time that all the Harvard papers have been united at such an event, and as the main object is to establish a manly spirit of co-operation and friendliness between the various papers it is hoped that all who can possibly attend the dinner will be present. Some organization of the papers will perhaps result from this dinner, and a happy precedent will undoubtedly be established. Tonight the blue book...
Tech's action in sending a return challenge makes it seem possible to establish a regular semi-annual race between the clubs. Such an arrangement would be greatly to the advantage of both clubs. They are the only college wheeling clubs in this vicinity, and this would tend to bring them into much closer contact. The friendly rivalry aroused would be most stimulating and beneficial to both organizations...
...were insignificant in Samoa. What commerce there is carried on by Germans. A stronger government is needed to secure life and property there, for the natives are acknowledged to be incapable. There is no good reason why the country having the greatest commercial interests in the islands should not establish a firm rule there. Our treaty interests would not be infringed nor would our coaling station be lost...
...making the recent recommendations. The students owe him a debt of gratitude for the way in which he made plain that in almost every respect the votes of the Overseers are not hostile to the broadest, highest, and most progressive aim of Harvard, but that they will serve to establish on a firmer basis the present policy of college government...
...word, but a "university" in fact as well as in name, that students here were to be allowed some freedom of action, and not to be tied down by a multitude of school-boy rules. If we are not mistaken the same board of overseers tried to re-establish, early this fall, a form of compulsory attendance at prayers, but the indignation raised was so strong that the overseers hastily withdrew their resolutions and were fain to remain quiet for a while...