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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appeared the first number of Harvardiana. The idea of issuing this paper originated with the freshman class, but the management and editorship was handed over to the juniors ('35) for one year. The second and third volumes were published by '37, and the fourth and final one by '38. Among the prominent contributors to Harvardiana were: J. R. Lowell, Nathaniel Holmes and H. G. Hale...
...York will be held next Saturday evening at the Madison Square Garden. It promises to be a great success as over four hundred entries have been received, including champions in all events from England, Ireland, Canada and the United States. There are also a number of college champions among the entries. Among the most prominent athletes who are expected to take part, are as follows: In the one mile handicap run, George and Conneff; in the quartermile handicap, Banks and Estes; in the sixty-yards handicap, Weston and Copeland; in the two hundred and fifty-yards hurdle handicap, Mapes...
...various bequests left to the University for buying books. The only American publishing house which regularly presents the library with its publications is that of Ticknor and Co., of Boston. Useful works of other houses are purchased at the request of instructors and those connected officially with the library. Among the most recent acquisitions is an assortment of books in French, chiefly on educational and historical subjects. A large box of German books was received two or three weeks ago, consisting of philological works. and Greek and Latin classics. These invoices are collected by agents of the University abroad...
...interest in football among the "non-professionals," as those who have not played on regular teams are sometimes called, has been greater this fall than ever before. Frequently during the regular foot ball season "scrub" games took place; and since Thanksgiving scarcely a pleasnt day has passed without witnessing one or two matches. This lively interest in football is a good omen for the game and the advantages arising from such informal matches are obvious. Often men who otherwise would never take the opportunity to learn the game, turn out to be very fine players from the prace ice they...
...great feeding school of Harvard, but during the past few years the Exeter delegation has decreased in number to a great extent and simply because the Exeter men in other colleges have offered to their hesitating brethren what seemed to be greater advantages than are to be found among us. We understand fully how zealous every Harvard man is to help his college but we also know that a little well directed energy will accomplish more than any amount of well-intentioned talk which does not completely persuade...