Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mass meeting of the Yale freshman class, Tuesday evening, action was taken on athletic constitution recently adopted by Harvard, '92. The rules proposed for the government of Harvard-Yale freshmen baseball and football games, and letters from Mr. Garrison, L. S., and Mr. Folansbee, secretary of Harvard, '92, urging their adoption, were submitted. After discussion the matter was placed in the hands of a committee composed of the captains of the university nine, eleven and crew, and two members of the freshman class. The class is heartily in favor of some arrangement which shall do away with the annual disagreements...
...This action is taken after careful consideration and when it is remembered that the committee stand ready to purchase all tickets, we are sure that the class will approve of our measures...
...Siege of Syracuse." He has clothed his ideas with varied and appropriate images, never becoming monotonous, prosaic, nor strained. His fine appreciation of the beauties of nature is perhaps the most marked feature of the book. As a drama it is not wholly successful, for though full of action and well sustained, it lacks plot and development of character. The historical incidents of the Siege of Syracuse are introduced, but have little real influence on the main theme, the love of Lucius and Adelia, As a poem the "The Siege of Syracuse" is far ahead of most initial publications...
...simplification and better conduct of Harvard-Yale freshman games, the following rules for their better conduct are hereby offered for the consideration and action of Yale '92, by Harvard...
...publish today the constitution governing freshman athletics as it was accepted by Ninety-two on Tuesday evening. It is to be hoped that Yale, '92, will agree to the action taken by Harvard, for the proposed rules, if adopted, will remove many objection able features from freshmen athletics In the past the playing of dropped men and professional school men on freshman teams by both Harvard and Yale has caused a great deal of bad feeling and most of the games have been played under protest. The new constitution does away with all such difficulty and requires that a freshman...