Word: amherst
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Amherst nine has been invited to play the West Point team, at the time of the West Point commencement in June...
...middle of the State, where the rain water disappears almost instantaneously, and for miles away you look down upon pines that are health-giving." The climate is mild and balmy. Seldom is there any winter. "The buildings, like those of Northern colleges of the grade of Dartmouth, Brown or Amherst, never had any doors apparently, and do not need them." Nor have hard blizzards necessitated even the replacing of "windows broken in war time." The roses bloom all the time in open air, and there is out-door singing in the January evenings, as with us in June. The board...
...mock trial recently netted $200 for the Amherst Base Ball Association...
With reference to the way that the larger colleges were overruled in the tug-of-war question it is interesting to note those colleges that won points at the Mott Haven games last spring. Harvard won 32 points, Yale 29 1-2, Amherst 12, and Swarthmore, Lehigh and New York 1 each...
...many colleges had such an event in their meetings, and then a vote was taken. There were twelve colleges present and the motion was defeated by a vote of 9 to 3. The two colleges that stood by Harvard in favor of the change were Cornell and Amherst. Yale, Princeton and the others voted against it. In the next motion to allow safeties to race with ordinary bicycles, Harvard gained a few more supporters but not enough to carry the motion. The question of the tug-of-war, like that of the safeties, meant a change in the constitution...