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...willing to give exclusive information, kindly state the number of books which you think will be needed in the respective courses. The committee are aware that the number is always more or less uncertain; but an approximate statement can be made. The committee trust that instructors will not make their estimates so liberal as to cause for the Society danger of serious loss because of an over-supply of books. When, however, the same books are to be used for successive years, less care need be exercised in this regard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Co-operative Society. | 6/6/1887 | See Source »

...triangular league is the most advantageous thing for Yale, Princeton and Harvard. The first need fear no deal, as she hinted some time since. Unanimous consent to all important measures could be made necessary. Why then need Yale fear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/4/1887 | See Source »

...subscribed last year. The amount collected is considerably less. The amount of gate money at the Yale game was small on account of the threatening weather. The cost of uniforms per man was slightly less than that of '89's uniforms. Whatever is absolutely necessary for the needs of the nine is procured at once. This is the purpose for which the money was collected. Not a cent has been spent on the pleasure of the men, and the statement that the nine is to view the races at the expense of the class is new to me, and certainly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 6/1/1887 | See Source »

With regard to the Vice-President's letter in the Post he clearly pointed out why the opposition wished to use the Boston papers, and showed by example how desperately in need of bolstering up their position was. It is a noticeable fact that the Boston papers have since to all appearances adopted his suggestion, and shut off further partisan agitation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/1/1887 | See Source »

...language and literature in colleges and other institutions of learning both in this country and in England, there is still a notable lack of interest in the subject exhibited in quarters where it ought not to exist. The reasons for this have often been discussed, and do not again need to be rehearsed; that they are insufficient is now admitted in certain high quarters where the admission would have been impossible not so many years ago. For a long time even Harvard seemed disposed to cling too tenaciously to the classical system of education, or, at least, in recognizing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New English Courses at Harvard. | 5/28/1887 | See Source »