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...weak and unsatisfactory explanation which the great majority of students are forced to make when asked right out and out to justify the stand which Harvard has taken. Experience has taught us to expect misrepresentation from the press of the country, but it is even more exasperating to think that owing to our own failure to get at the bottom of things, we have often caused misunderstanding. The good that one can do by presenting to his friends a clear and reasonable statement of all that has happened is inestimable, and it is to be hoped that every Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/26/1892 | See Source »

...moment showing that it is impossible to depend upon them. Their chief faults are, in the line, a tendency to "scrap" so much that they become unsteady on their feet, are easily blocked off, cannot block-off themselves and lose sight of the ball. The guards especially seem to think that they are on the field chiefly to maul all the men opposite them. The chief faults of the backs are, first, a tendency to get separated when running, so that all interference is lost, and, second, weakness in defensive play, especially in tackling. In fact the whole team shows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Freshman Eleven. | 10/25/1892 | See Source »

...places were held in the spring, it would put those who were to enter college the next year at a great disadvantage, as most of them would not be able to be in Cambridge at the time of application. The present management of the association have shown that they think the chances of those who have not yet entered college ought not to be so great as those of the men who have been in college a year and who have not got into the hall. For this new arrangement practically says that men now in college can apply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/10/1892 | See Source »

...remaining consideration is as to the most practicable plan for establishing such a magazine on a permanent basis. The committee think the best plan is to let from twenty to forty men of each graduate class pay, as a gift, five dollars per year for the support of the magazine and assume the control of it. This association would elect its own officers and council to have control of the paper. The subscription price of the magazine to others should be one dollar; and it should best be issued in July, October, January and April with chances for extra issues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Graduate Paper. | 6/7/1892 | See Source »

...pamphlets the change and development of the college in the last few years is very apparent; formerly the studies were all grouped under a few general heads, but now with the divisions into courses for undergraduates and courses for graduates, starred courses and unstarred courses it is bewildering to think of picking out the four best adapted to one's needs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Elective Pamphlet. | 6/2/1892 | See Source »