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...inconsistent with the unsectarian character and policy of the University must be prejudical, and while they cannot think that the method proposed by the Corporation is one which really carries out the purpose of the founder of the lectures, they see no utility in pressing views which have no likelihood of obtaining the interest and concurrence of the Corporation...
...that the dates as arranged came far too early in the season. At that time Harvard's season is only just begun; and important contests with Princeton could not be a correct test of the final strength of the two nines. Although games with Princeton would in all likelihood strengthen our nine, we have to be careful, in arranging them, that Harvard play under fairly favorable circumstances. The dates and conditions as arranged put Harvard at a decidedly disadvantage in regard both to the outcome with Princeton and the result of the first game with Yale, coming...
...them and the remainder trying for the 'varsity. Their new men are good, some of them as good as the men who rowed on the freshman crew last year. Mr. Alexander coaches them once in a while so that their chances for victory are not very bad. If the likelihood of winning the class races could be judged from the material, the chances would probably lie between the sophomores and freshmen...
...wish and that all students, simply as such, were treated as above suspicion and examined without proctors. Suppose then that some of them, being tempted by Satan, were to cheat, and to be seen cheating. What I should like "H. H. D." to answer is this: What likelihood would there be, in the present state of college opinion, of such students being sent to Coventry, dropped from the various associations with which they might be connected, and made to feel generally they had disgraced themselves in the public eye? It is all very well to talk about the individual...
...behalf of a sex which has not always been favored with its full share. The city, as such, can do little legally, to aid any enterprise of this kind, however meritorious, but I understand the park's commission to be of the opinion that, if there is a likelihood of the establishment of a richly endowed college for women in close proximity to Clark University, Worcester should at least manifest its appreciative sense of such munificence by the ample provision of open grounds for exercise and recreation...