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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Mendelssohn's "Scotch" Symphony No. 3, in A minor was the last number on the programme. Here was the great opportunity of the evening and here the Orchestra showed its excellence most forcibly. The various men playing the same instrument worked as one man, and the result was an almost perfect production. If the concerts are to continue the crescendo of excellence which they have begun it is difficult to see how the last one will be classed...
Again Harvard took the ball, and again rushed it right down the field and scored. Goal; score 16-12. Time was called almost immediately after this...
EXETER 4. '960.The freshman eleven went to Exeter Saturday afternoon and were defeated in a most exciting game by a score of 4 to 0 The weather was wretched, snow on the ground and a heavy wind blowing. The freshmen were outplayed at almost every point by the Exeter men and the score should have been larger...
...time, in the first half, this play worked very successfully, and they forced Harvard back from the centre to the twenty-five yard line, and then again to the fifteen yard line. But toward the end of the first half and throughout the second, the play was stopped almost every time in a manner that was very encouraging, especially as the Harvard defense was excellent against all of Technology's other plays. Harvard's aggressive work was on the whole very good, especially in the blocking off for Gage round the left end. Gage at halfback played well, following...
...Stone, L. S., the next speaker, opened for the Republicans and occupied himself with refuting the arguments of his predecessor. He stated that the articles on which the tariff was reduced by the bill were almost wholly articles of necessity, while the luxuries of the rich were more highly protected, to raise the prices. Wages, again, had increased, he said, according to the statistics of Mr. Peck of New York, who quoted 90,000 individual cases, as to the prosperity of the country, Mr. Stone showed that the Democratic platform claimed a direct loss, owing to increased mortgages on farms...