Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...defeated Bowdoin on Lake Quinsigamond, July 5, 1887, by two feet. The argument advanced by the Spirit of the Times, if supplemented by this fact clearly gives the championship to Cornell. Certainly the Yale News and the Harvard Crimson, in endorsing the statements of the Spirit of the Times make this concession. If Yale does not now claim the championship nothing now remains to be said about the matter...
Important changes were made in the Scientific School in 1888 89. Latin was dropped as a requirement for admission, and English and American history were substituted; these make the requirements for admission. English and American history, Algebra, plane geometry, logarithms and plane trigonometry, physics, English, and French or German. The former four years' course called Mathematics and Physics was converted into a course on Electrical Engineering...
...becoming provincial. How the new regulations show a tendency to provincialism it is difficult to see. Men do not come to Harvard because the nine plays Princeton twice a year in New Jersey; nor because thirty men compete in the games at New York every spring. The influences which make Harvard a national university are much broader and deeper, and will be little affected by the restriction of athletics to a reasonable area...
...base ball team of Bowdoin will be very strong this year. The nine will make a trip through Massachusetts early in the spring, and will try to arrange a game with Harvard...
...seems as if some one ought to make an effort "to prevent an institution with so much of good democratic Yale fun in it from falling to pieces of its own weight, as it must when a few more stories are erected on the present foundation." The faculty should step in and save the students from themselves. There undoubtedly exists a willingness among the latter to meet the faculty half way. Some abuses, however, must be left to public sentiment to correct. As long as decent society will permit it, the faculty can no prevent young ladies or their chaperones...