Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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The squad has suffered this year from the lack of weight among the candidates. Indeed this has been every year a handicap to Freshman elevens: The success of J. L. Knox '98 as a coach for the past two years has been due largely to his policy of developing fast...
This was all-evident from the practice yesterday. For the first time short halves were played between the four squads into which the candidates have been divided, and fast work insisted on. Although the linemen tackled high and the backs did not follow their interference, the desired dash was in...
At the annual opening meeting of the Graduate School last night, Dean Wright presided, introducing Professor William W. Goodwin, who gave the address of the evening. Professor Goodwin began by describing briefly the condition of Harvard College in 1872, when the first plans for a graduate school were considered.
Before 1872, no adequate means for the study of the higher branches of arts and sciences existed. Strangely enough, this was not because of any lack of money for promoting a school of higher study. The true reason lay in the fact that at that time no one on this...
Harvard had not stood still, however, in the period between its founding in 1636 and the year 1872. Started as an English college, with all or many of the English traditions, there had been from time to time considerable innovations. In 1820 the first degree of Bachelor of Law was...