Word: backing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Theme III., rewritten and corrected, may be handed back at any time before the Christmas recess...
...wish to warn men against leaving their overcoats exposed in the gymnasium. A few days before Thanksgiving a heavy overcoat was stolen from the books back of the new lockers and some three weeks before that time another overcoat was taken...
...urgent that the names of her team should be the first inscribed upon the new cup. Furthermore our failure to win in football puts an added responsibility upon the Mott Haven team. It is for them to maintain Harvard's superiority in track athletics and to bring back to her some of the athletic prestige which she has lost. There is thus a double duty upon all men who believe themselves eligible for the Mott Haven team to appear at the meeting tonight in the trophy room of the gymnasium...
...started from the gymnasium at 3.24 and laid a trail to Barry's Corner, thence to the Brighton Abatton, across the Watertown bridge, by Mount Auburn, along the rail-road to Fresh Pond and then to Brattle St. where the break was made near Mt. Auburn. They got back to the gymnasium at 4.29. The hounds, under T. P. King, '91, as master started eight minutes after the hares. Just before the break was made there was some difficulty in following the trail. The first hound, J. Manley, '93, with T. P. King, '91, second, returned seventeen minutes after...
...sixth of a mile in circuit. It is very carefully underdrained and is composed of pin gravel covered to a depth of nine inches with cinders. The track is so arranged that the finish of the races will be opposite the grand stand which is also just back of the catcher's position in base ball. The upper end of the field has been cut down so that there is little grade, and everything has been done to give the men the best possible chance for athletic practice and contests...