Word: accounted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Captain Noyes of Yale has been unable to work for a few days on account of an injury to his back, received while practicing in the baseball cage...
Match C was closed two weeks ago on account of lack of entries, but it is hoped that all three matches will be shot the coming month...
...meeting of the Harvard Union last evening, the question for debate was-"Resolved, That the United States should maintain the independence and autonomy of the Samoan Islands." The debate was opened by Mr. G. B. Schulte, L. S., who gave an account of the political affairs of the Islands. He described some encroachments of the Germans upon the rights of American citizens. Not only are we bound to protect our commerce, but we ought to secure a naval station in the South Sea. We must soon have an increased navy and trading fleet, and will need a port...
...candidates for the Mott Haven team will begin work about March 1 on the grounds of the Manhattan Athletic Club. Many of them are already in training on their own account, and expect to enter the games of the N. A. A. A. A., March 2; Yale games in the middle of March, and the Harvard games, March 30. Columbia has great hopes of winning the cup this year. The events which they expect to take and the men they are depending upon are the tug-of-war team; H. Mapes, '92, in one if not both hurdles; Banks...
...only handicap event of the meeting, the shot contest, was in some respects the most important of the afternoon, on account of its bearing on the Mott Haven games next spring. Jane-way put the shot 38 feet, 8 inches, which entitles him to be looked upon as a candidate for honors in New York next spring, but owing to the more than liberal handicaps, Brownlee, '89, took first place with a throw of 35 feet, 2 inches, and a handicap of 5 feet, while Hill, '90, gained second prize on a put of 35 feet, 5 inches...