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...could show you in five minutes where half a million could be placed and not be noticed. We expect $50,000 from the Clarke estate and shall raise each professor's salary $300 next commencement. We are the only college which has prayers twice a day, and we want to keep it a Christian nursery...
...last number of the Exonian tells us of the decline of Exeter boating interests for want of proper boats, and appeals to Harvard to supply the deficiency, saying that as a majority of Exeter men go to Harvard, we would eventually get most of the advantage derived from their having adequate boating facilities. With regard to boating, no other preparatory school, with the exception of St. Paul's, has such good natural opportunities as Exeter, and yet, as all graduates of Exeter know, these opportunities have been, and are now, greatly diminished through lack of boats. Exeter men have always...
...Vassarites want a woman on the board of trustees, claiming that it is just as absurd to have a board composed entirely of men as it would be to have the Harvard board composed entirely of women...
There are plenty of men in college who want to see cricket do well, and it will only take a little energy to make the game a success in Harvard, and that energy I think will be forthcoming next spring. Our ground is poor, but that cannot be helped. At present there is no chance of securing a better one. We have to play almost all our matches out of Cambridge. A good ground more than anything else is what is needed to make cricket a permanent game at Harvard. Indeed, a well cared for cricket field is an ornament...
...needed to consolidate the Pennsylvania eleven into a very strong team, which would be capable of doing well against any of the local clubs, and that is the same that Harvard needs - a new ground; but, fortunately for Pennsylvania, they are in a fair way to get what they want. Their provost is interested in the game, and I believe is making preparations for laying out a ground somewhere near the college. This will give Pennsylvania's eleven a chance to practice together, which they have never had before, and an inducement, it is to be hoped, sufficient to make...