Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. P. T. Barlow. Captain Cushing stated that he had secured a practice-ground (the field between North Avenue and Holmes Field), and hoped that it would be much used, especially by the men of '80 and '81. There was much work to be done before autumn, when two or more games would be played in Canada, and four or five here in Cambridge; Yale especially was a dangerous rival. The team would probably consist of fifteen men; the question would be decided at the May meeting of the Captains from Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Harvard. Probably...
...small but select Lawn-Tennis Club was in active operation last autumn, and a Bicycling Club, we are informed, will be the event of the coming season. It is rumored that as soon as the river is open a few "boating men," who are disgusted with the management of "club system," will probably charter one of Blakey's shells for their private use; so we may expect to see before long a "gentleman-six" on the Charles. To speak of the Fencing Club and the Pigeon-Shooting Club is but to mention other phases of the same spirit of progress...
...introduce more blue and less crimson into his already falsely drawn picture. It does seem a little odd, now that we think of it, that "the eleven-men game was a concession originally to Harvard, made two years ago," when we recollect that two years ago, in the autumn of '75, We played Yale with fifteen men. It again seems a little odd that "she [Harvard] gave us no proper notification, official or otherwise, of the proposed change," when it was expressly stated in the challenge we sent Yale early in November, that we wished to play with fifteen...
...Autumn Field-Day of the Athletic Association has been abolished...
Enough to know that e'er the autumn...