Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...toboggan slide back of the reservoir is now completed...
...Over twenty hounds have formed the pack each time, and the almost entire absence of so-called professionals has given every runner a fair chance to win a cup for himself. An occasional rainy Tuesday made a postponement necessary, but with this exception there has been no serious set back until the present snowstorm, which make further runs impossible...
...Cook, '89, was elected. While the choice in some ways is eminently a good one, it caused considerable dissatisfaction in the junior class, and that too among the representatives of the class on the team. They claim that the election was contrary to precedent, and as they have the back-bone of the coming team in their class, and among them many competent to captain the team, there was no call for the slight given to the class. The '88 representatives on the team, have signified their desire to decline to play, and thus get in a man of their...
...full between the games of 1886 and 1887. We have leisure to look back on the past and forward to the future. We have come to a crisis. It is time to meet it, if we are to keep up the character of our colleges in the view of parents and the community generally, and to make them places of high education where cultivated tastes and refined manners are acquired. I think the colleges on the Eastern seaboard should come to an understanding with each other. It is their duty at present not to cast reflections on each other...
...that may be applied. There must be a new swimming tank, with all the necessary bathing facilities in one and the same building, to which structure all the lockers, also, should be removed. A fund has been started for the erection of such an edifice, to be built just back of the gymnasium and in close connection with it, in fact forming part of it. This fund now amounts to about twenty thousand dollars, but thirty thousand must be contributed before the foundations can be laid. Here then is a chance for our complainers to prove themselves generous benefactors...