Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman ball game at Southboro on Saturday was called on account of rain at the end of the third inning. The score then stood 8 to 1 in favor of the freshmen...
...another column we give an account of the Overseers' meeting yesterday. It will be remembered that lately a committee was appointed to consider the religious interests of the college, and to make a report which should include the subject of chapel attendance. At the session yesterday, only a part of the report was presented, - a recommendation that the Plummer Professorship of Christian morals be filled at once. As is well known, this chair has been vacant since the resignation of Dr. Peabody a few years ago; and as the religious services of the university having no one whose special business...
...notice in the March number of the Virginia University Magazine, a capital account of Harvard and Harvard life as compared with Virginia University and the work of its students. The article is by no means merely a eulogium of our college. The writer, who is evidently a member, and an observant member, too, of Harvard, takes pains to criticize justly many of the failings of our college, but he does it in so admirably impassionate a manner that he deserves the warmest praise of all lovers of Harvard University. As a model of clearness and force, we commend...
...SOCIETY. Meeting this evening at 7.30 in Mass. 2. Dr. J. W. Fewkes will give an account of the Provincetown Excursion made during the recess, and the collections will be shown and commended upon. All students are cordially invited...
BASE-BALL.The nine practiced daily, playing several games with picked nines. As a whole the weather was not good for practice. The game on Fast Day, which was with Dr. Pope's nine, was the most important game of the recess, but even that was not very exciting, and on account of the chill atmosphere the playing was rather poor. Following is the score...