Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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Gold medals of the same design as those given in the past to University debaters will be given to the members of the debating team which recently defeated Princeton.
Under the general head, "English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: A Retrospect," Professor Lewis E. Gates is contributing a series of essays to the Critic. The first of the series entitled "The Romantic Movement" appears in the January number.
The Freshman Mandolin Club has been reduced to twenty-one men, which will probably be the final number for the year. The officers of the club have not yet been elected. The members are as follows:
The beginning of the year 1900 has suggested a comparison of the present Harvard with the Harvard of one hundred years ago. This comparison has brought to light a number of interesting facts especially with regard to student life.
Joseph Willard was president in 1800 with a salary of $1400 a year, in addition to fees for degrees and grants of land; Ebenezer Storer was treasurer; and Doctors J. Lathrop, S. Howard, E. Pearson, and Judges J. Lowell and O. Wendell were serving on the Corporation. The College was...