Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...distinguished men on the list will do honor to the occasion, not only by their action, but by their names. And now comes the result of the meeting of the undergraduate committee, which occurred last night, as reported in another column, to confirm our hopes of a celebration next autumn which shall do our Alma Mater more than credit in the eyes of the world. We think the order of the festivities as allotted for the three different days, is an excellent one. Sunday coming between the two days of the greater eclat will tend to relieve the monotony which...
...tennis players should feel called upon to assist them by entering, even if they do not feel confident of carrying off the cups offered for the winners. Harvard has her reputation to uphold in tennis as in the other branches of athletics; a very good showing was made last autumn, but of course the more good players we can bring forward, the better chance we have for keeping up this reputation. So we exhort every man who has ever played to come out next week and try his luck...
...scarcely more candidates than there are places to be filled. Eighty-nine should wake up and furnish a dozen or so more men to learn this attractive game and thus properly strengthen the twelve, and also furnish useful training for men who wish to play foot-ball in the autumn. Lacrosse and foot ball go hand in hand in the style of play and faculties called into use. If Harvard men realized this and made the players of one game work into the other, as they do at Princeton, thus keeping their good men always active, we should soon...
NATURAL HISTORY. 1. The Mound-builders. 2. Theories of glacial motion. 3. The Lake Dwellers. 4. Is Natural selection the sole cause of Evolution? 5. The Colors of Autumn Leaves. 6. The tension of vegetable tissues. 7. The effects of light on Plants. 8. Can disease-germs be distroyed by the so-called disinfectants...
...will serve to elevate college poetry to official recognition, and offer an inducement to the college poets to pause for a moment from their "pessimistic wailing." We would suggest that if the prize is henceforth permanent, the date at which the papers are due should be in the early autumn, and not in the middle of a college term...