Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Mason, '84, Harvard's celebrated quarter-back, who was on the team which defeated Princeton in 1882, returned from Europe this week and was on the field to encourage the eleven yesterday...
...from New York could not be made. If, however, 150 men promise to go they can have the best of accommodations on the Fall River boat (either Bristol or Pilgrim), Wednesday night for $1.80; supper, 50 cents; and stateroom holding two, $1.00. If the same number come back Thursday night by rail leaving New York at 11.35 p. m., the fare will be about $3.00; $100 more for berth. The round trip can then be made for $6.80, including supper and sleeping accommodations...
...will look after their training, and ex-Captain John Rogers will also render valuable assistance. There is much valuable material this year in the freshman class, and in the recent rushes they showed that there was plenty of grit and muscle. The members do not propose to take a "back seat" if they can help it. Many of them already give promise of being exceptionally good oarsmen, and they are willing to work. They have already and intend in the future to practice running at "hare and hounds," and will exercise on the chest weights, Indian clubs, dumb bells...
...other stirring incidents of the scene-it is most dampening to read the meagre and cold-blooded accounts of it in all the papers. I notice that the CRIMSON even reduces the first individual feat in the game, Boyden's run, to this: "Harvard's down; ball passed back to Boyden," etc. Won't you correct this and put in print that Boyden took the ball running from a long punt at the middle of the field and ran past the whole Princeton team with it? Of course every one who saw the game knows that perfectly, but it ought...
...town to Appleton Chapel, where Dr. Brooks was to preach-that even before the hour specified all the seats except a very few near the front were filled-mainly with Cambridge citizens. The complainants go on to assert that many students were obliged either to stand at the very back of the chapel or to go away, for lack of sufficient space in which to bestow themselves. Now Appleton Chapel was built for Harvard College and for the use of Harvard students. Eminent preachers are engaged to come here and talk to us, and the more eminent the preachers...