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...impression seems to be slowly gaining ground among the students that the proposed fall class races were too hastily determined upon, and that action was taken in the matter before it had been sufficiently discussed in all its bearing. Certain remarks let fall by those interested in foot-ball would seem to indicate that the scheme can hardly hope to meet with very hearty support from that quarter, while some of the men who are prominent in rowing affairs fail to exhibit any very enthusiastic appreciation of the new departure. The fact is that many valuable men will be kept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/10/1885 | See Source »

...cold weather does not seem to lessen the interest in tennis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/9/1885 | See Source »

...report of the treasurer of the Foot-Ball Association showed a balance of $3 in the treasury. The chairman was instructed to appoint a committee of three, chosen irrespectively of classes, to have, with himself, full powers to make such arrangements as may seem to be in the best interests of foot-ball at Harvard this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot Ball Meeting. | 10/8/1885 | See Source »

...surprising that the college manifests so little interest in the annual meetings of the various athletic clubs. After the splendid record made by the crimson in the contests of last year it would certainly seem that the students might take the trouble to be present at the meetings which have so direct a bearing upon the athletic future of the college. It is an old theme, it is true, and one that has furnished the Harvard press with many an editorial, yet it is difficult to be silent when the same spirit of indifference manifests itself year after year. What...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/7/1885 | See Source »

...government by the proclamation to the students of a code of rules declaring precisely the things which they can do. The other way is one that is founded upon the principle of liberty, and that is upon a presumption, which in a nation based upon the principle would seem to be not a very violent presumption, that liberty is the foundation of good government and that a university governed well must be governed in accordance with the principles of liberty. This university wisely has not very many rules. I do not know that I would have more than one rule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 10/7/1885 | See Source »