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...First, University Hall might advance the deadline for grades in those courses which meet toward the end of the exam period. If this would make it too tough for the Administrative Board to examine the grades of students going on or coming off probation, there is another possibility: The inter-term recess might be lengthened. This would allow instructors more time to deal fully with the bluebooks, and it would give students the satisfaction of knowing that a term's work was not being glossed over by hurried graders...
...beginning of the nineteenth century, the culinery battles raged so fiercely that the Administration took radical steps to keep the idea of a common eating table. Since most of the warfare took the form of inter-class fights, the Common was transferred to University Hall in 1816, and each class had its own room on the first floor. But this only made things worse, for the restriction turned out to heighten class spirit. Circular holes in the walls soon appeared, and missiles went flying through them. A typical freshman-sophomore fight on a Sunday evening in 1819 was commemorated...
Some thought that inter-sectional games were extremely desirable both as a means of establishing friendly contact between Universities and as a means of comparing the caliber of football played in different leagues. People of this opinion, as opposed to those who thought that as far as Harvard was concerned inter-sectional football was "pure suicide", felt that Harvard was over-hasty in abolishing this phase of the game merely on the basis of what happened against Stanford this fall...
Next the HAA director announced that Harvard would play no further Intersectional games. This University has never been a bulwark of inter-sectional play, having played but four such games in the last ten years. What could be gained by this forthright announcement? Nothing except the opinion that Harvard is afraid to play anybody it has not been formally introduced to. Yale didn't announce it would never play Vanderblit again, but it won't. All such a statement by Harvard could create is ill will...
...same time Bingham said that Harvard would play no more inter sectional football games. "We are not going to compete with the West and the South," he said. "We are going to play in our own class. We are going to stick to the Ivy League." He added, however, that no games now contracted for will be cancelled...