Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fill and the prospects for next season are anything but bright. Willard, captain of last year's nine, is back, but has signified his determination not to play any more. It is needless to add that Bingham, who pitched last year, will be debarred from playing this season on account of his connection with professional teams during the past summer...
...Thayer, '89, has not returned to college on account of ill health, and H. O. Poor, '90, has been elected secretary...
Yesterday afternoon candidates for the 'Varsity foot-ball team met for practice on Jarvis Field for the first time this fall. On account of the earliness of the season and the stormy weather, there were not so many men on the field as is usual on the first day of practice. Most of those who presented themselves as candidates for the eleven were upper class men, who have played on the 'Varsity or class teams. Among them were the following: Holden, '88, captain. Porter, '88; Wood, '88; Butler, '88; Harding, '89, of last year's eleven, and Bancroft...
...account of the weather, the Harvard-Columbia race, which was to have been rowed the day before Class-Day, took place June 27th. The Columbia crew was practically the same that won in '86, and one could see in watching them at practice that they got a great deal of speed out of their boat. Harvard, on the other hand, had an almost entirely new crew, and there were some fears that lack of experience might prove a serious handicap. The eight were powerful men, however, and it was generally supposed that the race would be very close...
...ladies of Athens commanded in their letters, that attic prose learnt its brilliancy. The ladies of to-day have not degenerated from that standard. The essay, besides being of easy diction, shows much sympathy with the subject of it and some critical acumen. Next comes a very happy account of "The Big Bharata" by Mr. Bruce. He has made the tedious agreeable, and compressed eighty thousand lines into a sentence; indeed, with the exception of his "Catullus" of last year, we do not remember any critical article of his that is better He tells us among other things that...