Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...York will also prevent the proposed trip of the Pierian Sodality to Smith College next spring. The Faculty by its vote has practically decided to adhere to the rule that none of the College musical or dramatic organizations may give performances except at places from which they can get back to Cambridge by twelve o'clock of the same night...
...outlook for Harvard is not as promising as usual. J. P. Parker '96 and J. E. Hoffman '96, of last year's team, are not back this year and A. G. Thacher '97, the third member of the team, is much handicapped by an injured hand. A. F. Riggs '98 is the only other man who has represented Harvard in competitions. He was on the junior team that won the open championship last spring in New York. Moreover, there is a great lack of new material. In view of these facts the members of the Fencing Club and every...
...ball game with Yale on Saturday afternoon. Would it not be pleasanter and more appropriate to have a game with a team of graduates? There could be no possible ground for ill-feeling, we should be very glad to see famous old players again, and they would doubtless come back on that day more joyfully than on any other...
...substitute on last year's crew, constitute for the present the University crew. All other candidates must come out for their class crews. As men come up in their class boats they will be taken to the 'Varsity on trial and the men whose places they take will drop back to their class crews...
...will be remembered that the Louisburg Cross is one of the oldest and most valued relics in the possession of the University. When the British captured Louisburg in 1755, one of the soldiers obtained the cross and brought it back to Boston. Soon after it was given to the University and when Gore Hall was built in 1841 it was set in the wall of the old transept on the side where the stack was subsequently built...