Word: recente
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard Union debate tonight will be on the question, "Resolved, That the system of athletics in vogue at Harvard during recent years is for the best interests of the students...
...recent meeting of the Yale Boat Club the secretary read a letter of Prof. Wheeler's from Prof. Agassiz of Harvard in which he regretted that, during his abscence, Yale had not been informed that all Harvard's boating interests had been entrusted to the hands of a graduate committee. He asked that Yale appoint a similar committee to confer with theirs. "Now it has always been the sentiment here," says the News, "that our boating be confined to the under-graduates as much as possible: they row the races, they should have the say. However, out of courtesy...
...meeting of the Harvard Union tomorrow evening the question for debate will be: "Resolved, That the system of athletics in vogue at Harvard during recent years is for the best interests of the students." The principal disputants are, affirmative - G. E. Lowell, '83; T. J. Coolidge, '84. Negative - W. B. Noble, '84; F. I. Carpenter...
...story is told by the Cambridge firemen which ought not to miss getting into print. At the recent fire in the Cambridge car-shops, in Dunster street, one of the engineers wanted help in raising a ladder, and, seeing a man standing on the sidewalk near by, he called to him, "Here, you, give us a lift." The man responded with alacrity, and a moment later when the engineer took a better look at him he discovered that his assistant was President Eliot of Harvard University. An apology was begun, but the president graciously declared it was all right...
There is a mysterious club in Boston, which, according to a prominent sporting paper, is called "The Harvard Associates." A recent item reads: "The Harvard Associates, of Boston, Mass., recently elected the following officers: President, Daniel J. Shea; vice-president, Joseph Daly; secretary, Thomas F. Gallagher; treasurer, Frank J. McCarthy." What deep-laid conspiracy the "Harvard Associates" may be plotting is not known; neither are the motives of revenge which induced them to wilfully pilfer Harvard's venerable name. But the outrage of the act is none the less flagrant. Perhaps the Howard Associates will prosecute them for infringement...