Word: ball
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman asked the captain of the foot-ball team to lend the University suits for a game between...
...HERBERT C. LEEDS, '77, is now in Japan, where he is initiating the natives into the mysteries of base ball...
...four to England to meet the best amateur crews of Great Britain at the Henley Regatta in June. Messrs. Godwin, Sage, Colgate, Boyd, and Edson, substitute, will probably form Columbia's crew. Of these gentlemen, all but Mr. Boyd were on the eight which rowed at Springfield. A subscription ball will be given at Delmonico's on June 16 to help defray the crew's expenses. We sincerely hope that Columbia will be able to carry out her plan, and we assure her of our heartiest wishes for her success in the race...
OWING to the new rule which provides that professional base-ball clubs, members of the League, shall not play with amateur clubs on League grounds, one very important source of revenue is taken from our Nine. Hence the Nine are compelled to ask this year for a larger subscription than usual in order to meet the expenses of Gymnasium practice, and of cleaning and repairing uniforms. We hope that the students will bear these facts in mind and be willing to subscribe liberally to the funds of the Nine...
...raising money for our crew besides the subscription-list, namely, the boat-club theatricals, have been taken from us, and it now behooves us to find something to take their place, which the Faculty will not be apt to object to. Why can we not have such a subscription ball as Columbia is to have to aid her crew? There are men among the undergraduates who, assisted by graduates in Boston, could certainly make such a ball a grand success, financially and socially. We commend this idea to their attention. Furthermore, we are by no means sure that the proposed...