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...seemed to me the cardinal defects in our system of athletics that I cannot but say a word in his support. I think it may safely be said that we train the few at the expense of the many; and thus in athletics as everywhere else produce a little group of specialists. Now this might be an excellent policy were our specialists always to remain with us. But their stay is always limited. As a rule they play but three years at most. When they are gone, one newspaper after another takes up the cry - "The Harvard team is greatly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/25/1887 | See Source »

...good deal of excitement. The list which contained all the men who have an average stand above 2.50, on a scale of four, consisted of 76 men, 19 of whom, standing above 3.15, will be admitted into the "Phi Beta Kappa." These are the following, arranged alphabetically in groups. The first group of six containing those who have an average stand above 3.30: Carter, Cornwall, Fisher, Isbell, Steiner, Stimson; Ayres, Baldwin, Behrends, Brownell, Cooley, Farrington, Fellowes, Leverett, McCauley, Ogden, Platt, Solby, Stevens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Letter. | 1/20/1887 | See Source »

...first group of college songs well deserved the warm welcome they received. The accompanying of the "Triton" also was extremely well done. The playing of the Banjo Club, made a pleasing intermezzo, although they were not always in the best time. Mr. Thayer's bit of part-writing was delicately rendered. The purity of the voices in the German song was very pleasing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Pierian-Glee Club Concert. | 12/18/1886 | See Source »

Wonderful treasures of art were distributed in these magnificent halls and the world perhaps has never seen such quantities of them in one group of buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Lanciani's Lecture. | 12/16/1886 | See Source »

...certainly gives a comfortable feeling to Harvard men, to think that almost anywhere they may go, from Maine to California, they can find near them a group of friends and fellow students, on which they can enter as guests, but as more than guests also, as past members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/11/1886 | See Source »