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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last Saturday evening in New York seems as a whole to be satisfactory and fair to both colleges. It is better to have no championship whatever than to have an unfair one, and make the already strong feeling between the colleges still stronger. It would have been unfair to award the championship to Yale on the strength of the Yale-Princeton game, for the weather, the condition of the ground and the darkness during the last half would not permit the strong points of either team to be brought out. At the same time, to stop the game twenty minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/29/1886 | See Source »

...stories desired for publication in The Railroader which may not receive an award will be paid for at a rate to be agreed upon between the author and publishers if used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRIZE STORIES. | 10/28/1886 | See Source »

...same as those for the Bowdoin prizes, contained in the university catalogue. Essays must be handed to the Secretary of the Harvard Finance Club before Dec, 15, 1886. Other subjects may be chosen if handed in to the Secretary of the Finance Club for approval by the committee of award...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cobden Club Essays. | 6/24/1886 | See Source »

...useless for us to try to award sufficient praise to the University nine. Their hard and patient work has been crowned by signal triumph. They have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. They have played and won the hardest up-hill game in the steadiest manner possible. Time after time an error in one of these last five innings would have defeated us; but our nine never faltered for an instant, was never nervous or confused, and always did the right thing. Well, the most exciting game the association ever chronicled is over, and after our wild rejoicings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/1/1886 | See Source »

...action of Saturday's audience in hissing the award of one of the sparring bouts, unjust as it may have seemed, was a disgrace to our winter sports. It is to be hoped that Harvard men were not concerned in this ungentlemanly conduct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/15/1886 | See Source »

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