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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first hare and hounds run of the season took place. The hares, Mr. Strong, '85, and Mr. Ayer, '87, started at 3.41 from the steps of Matthews. The hounds, with Walker. '84, as Master, started 8 minutes after. The course was a good one and lay up Brattle street, around Fresh pond and then home. The hares got back in about an hour, after going some six miles. The first hound was Fish, '86, coming in 16m. 52 1-2s. behind the hares, who thus win first prizes. Fish, who gets second prize, was followed by Jack, '84, Walker...
...current of their routine duties and shallow ambition. The routine work of a college is worth little except to suggest and direct to broader fields of study. For that the library affords the opportunity. The student should reinforce his prescribed work with judicious and extensive reading. He should read around all the subjects that come before him in the regular course of his study, so far as possible, and he will experience gratifying surprise, if his thirst for knowledge is genuine, in finding how much more communion with many minds regarding a single manifestation of truth will...
...scarcity of tennis courts has increased with the erection of the Physical Laboratory and the building of the new athletic grounds, so that, even under the rules of the Tennis Association, it is hard for any one to get a chance to play. This makes men look around for some other recreation and exercise, and I feel sure that many men would be glad of the chance which the formation of a Gun Club will offer. It would, too, in addition to present advantages, enable the students of Harvard to get larger bags of birds, and to kill more moose...
...influences and advantages of college life. They are sent here to get the advantage of the training and preparation that college, in its capacity of a world in miniature, affords, for the struggle in the larger world. But college life without dormitory life, with the students scattered around among the townspeople, is a very different affair, deprived of many of its best characteristics. Let us have a new dormitory soon, then, a gift if possible ; if not, an investment of university funds...
...most exciting race of the day. W. H. Goodwin, Jr., '84, scratch; F. S. Billings, '85, 6 yds; I. Louis, M. S., 14 yds; G. Kemp, '84, 14 yds; E. Norton, '85, 20 yds. Norton led around the turn and coming into the stretch, where Louis passed him and won in 23 3-5 seconds. Goodwin had come up very fast and he and Norton ran a hard race for second place. The judges gave it in favor of Norton, however...