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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...corteous treatment received from the University of Pennsylvania by our cricket eleven on the occasion of their visit to Philadelphia last Saturday, cannot fail to be gratifying to every Harvard undergraduate, and forges another link in the chain of goodwill which connects the two Universities. It is unfortunate that a return game cannot be played, as it would give the Cricket Club an opportunity to show their appreciation of the treatment accorded them. The cricket team of the University of Pennsylvania is among the strongest in this country, and their comparatively easy victory was not unexpected. Notwithstanding this, however, such...
...will be of importance as showing, in a measure, what our chances will be in the intercollegiate games next week. The men will have an opportunity to test their speed against amateurs, including a number of representatives of other colleges, and will gain steadiness and experience, which can not fail to be valuable to them...
...rare opportunity to hear such a man as Judge Cooley speak on "The Requirement of Impartiality and Uniformity in Railroad Service." We, therefore, desire to announce his lecture from this column. We feel that it is not necessary to urge a large attendance; so distinguished a man can never fail to have a worthy audience at Harvard...
...notes was made to meet the expenses of the coming war with England. They were mostly in sums of $100. and were never intended for general circulation; but this action of the treasury established a deplorable precedent, which those in favor of paper money in later years did not fail to make use of. Up to 1861, all attempts to make paper money a legal tender were indignantly rejected by congress. But the breaking out of the Civil War made such action both just and necessary...
...hour examinations must continue a feature of our college, let them come systematically, let there be some agreement between instructors, so that men will not have to neglect shamefully the work of one course in order to pass creditably an hour's test in another, or worse still, fail to do themselves justice in any of their courses. The crowding of these examinations utterly without plan into the last three days of the term, in addition to the extra work at this time, is one of the worst abuses of our examination system, and one of the greatest onemies...