Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...misconstrued by outsiders. Harvard is essentially liberal in all its ideas. It is our most earnest wish to look at questions from all points of view, and in matters of religion as well as other subjects, we are consistent. This desire to cultivate a liberal spirit, to show that we respect the honest opinions of all men, leads us to ask if it would not be best to add to the list of our University preachers a representative of the Roman Catholic creed. In suggesting this we wish to make prominent that it is not because of his peculiar belief...
...Yale News is responsible for the statement that in all probability the new Yale launch, built by E. T. Copeland of New York, will not be accepted. The launch has been given three trials but in all of them it has failed to show the required speed. The third trial was made on Monday afternoon. The screw of the launch had been changed and the result was a slight increase of speed, but not sufficient to warrant its acceptance. The time averaged four miles in about twenty-one minutes. In other respects the boat is perfectly satisfactory; it sets well...
...boating interest of the college this fall has been centering on today's class races. The crews have been on the river for the past three weeks and today they will have a chance to show the result of their training. The men have been working steadily and they ought to make a good race. The juniors and sophomores have been practising nearly every day. A few new men have been developed, but the greater part of the boats will be filled with old men. The seniors have not been practising as hard as the other two crews; however, their...
...verse consists of a tasteful "Ballade," and some lines to "Early Morning," which show a love of nature, though they are marred by one obscure line...
...shown in the series of class foot ball games, the schedule of which we have published, as was shown in the base ball series last spring. The games furnish practice for a great number of possible candidates for the university team and they also furnish a good chance to show a little class feeling of which there is none too much at Harvard. The teams themselves have been working hard for two or three weeks and the elevens are all in very fair condition so that each of the games will be well worth seeing...