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...York this spring, or to take part in no college track athletic matches. If the latter course were pursued, track athletics would suffer a blow as severs as did football in the year when Harvard was allowed to play no matches. The athletic committee, therefore, in order to maintain its principle of injuring no branch of athletics at Harvard, has taken the only course open...
...report for 1889-90 President Eliot maintains his attitude of hostility to freshman intercollegiate sports. He says: "The best number of intercollegiate contests is the smallest number which will maintain a keen interest in each sport. A strict application of this principle would exclude intercollegiate matches between freshmen." This is precisely what it would not do. The one reason for organizing freshman teams is that they act as feeders to the university teams. They bring into athletics many men who would feel themselves hopelessly beneath the standard of university teams, but are glad to try for freshman teams. They form...
...have made this hasty review in order to show that the College Conferences have in past years been of value. In approaching the point of our editorial we fear that we shall be misunderstood. We maintain that the series of lectures given this year is not of the nature that is demanded by the College Conferences. We think that the present course should have been given by itself, and not have forced out the regular Conference series, which we have missed this year particularly, during the present discussion of questions of college policy. The present course is very valuable...
...present system is a covert attack upon the National Banks: a. Silver certificates replace the national bank notes. which furnish a good currency, easily expansible. b. A proper security could be found to maintain this circulation; e. g., see John J. Knox's proposals, in his interview with the Common Banking and Currency...
...present day of rapid change and fience attack upon traditional ideas the man who is to maintain the true faith of Christianity must stand upright and face the storm of criticism. Grander visions than were ever seen by ancient prophets are now being opened up by modern science. Everything has now become wonderful; the insignificant pebble contains a page of the past history of the world written indelibly upon it, and the tiny flower gives up to the student the great truths of the universe. It is just as proper to speak of the word of the Lord as coming...