Word: plan
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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EXETER CLUB.- There will be a meeting of the Exeter Club this evening at 7.30 in the D. U. rooms. A full attendance is desired as it is wished to discuss a plan of offering some prize for athletics at Exeter this year...
...meeting of the association was held in Philadelphia on April 4th, Harvard being represented by R. D. Brown, '90, and T. W. Batch, '90. The meeting was called to order by President Wood. Harvard moved that the intercollegiate games be played according to the American plan, that is that each innings shall be divided into three turns. After a long debate the motion was carried, Harvard and Pennsylvania voting in the affirmative, and Haverford in the negative. It was decided to ask Columbia, in view of the fact that she will have a cricket eleven this spring, to join...
These points are all included in the revised proposition. The Harvard Conference Committee had neither the ability nor the inclination to make any further concession. We believe that the great body of her graduates and undergraduates will agree with them and with the Athletic Committee that the plan of having all the football games in New York is not to be entertained...
...longer than they do now would thus be increased, and honor-men would not have the lurking feeling that they are imposing on the world, by being recognized as proficient in languages of which they have not had either time or opportunity to study all the masterpieces. Such a plan would, moreover, increase facility in reading beyond the present insufficient standard. For it is an undoubted fact that the average student who has received second year honors and is thus recognized by the faculty as able "to translate Greek and Latin at sight," cannot read any Greek text without incessant...
...eleven and nine, it is seldom necessary to remind freshmen of this, for the expenses of both of these organizations are comparatively small and may in part be defrayed by the proceeds of match games. But it is different with the crew, for, though conducted on the most economical plan, a crew costs upwards of two thousand dollars, and all of this must be raised by subscriptions from freshmen alone. Two thousand dollars may seem at first though too large an amount of money to spend for such a purpose, but, if any man will remember that a shell...