Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...look forward with hope to the nine, for the retrieving of our lost honors of last year. Captain Hutchinson is doing vigorous work in the base-ball interests of the college. Negotiations have been on foot, now for a long time, for the series of games that will begin with the opening of the season." The Courant is at present exchanging compliments with the Record, as witness the following: "When we turn to the exchanges our surprise all vanishes as we see the students of Cornell characterized as 'muckers and slums,' and language used which would befit only a loafer...
...same prize, and another possible competitor is the University of Virginia, provided its four-oared crew should win the race at Lynchburg on the last Friday of June. Should the University Eight of Harvard announce their intention to enter, there seems no reasonable doubt that Cornell would at once begin training an eight to meet them, and perhaps Columbia would do likewise; but the entrance of any fourth college is extremely improbable. In Harvard's absence I fear that Columbia and Cornell would not be disposed to compete; and in that case the only apparent chance of keeping the eight...
...following is the programme of the first Chamber Concert to be given in Boylston Hall: Quartette in E minor, op. 59, Beethoven; Quartette in Bb, Mendelssohn. Mr. George Osgood will sing. The Concert will begin promptly at 7.45, and the doors will be kept closed during the first piece...
...Chamber Concerts will be given at Boylston Hall on Thursday evenings, Feb. 13, March 13, April 10, 1879, by the New York Philharmonic Club, Mr. Richard Arnold, Leader. The programmes will be selected from the Chamber Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn, and other great masters. The Concerts will begin at a quarter before eight, and end before half past nine o'clock. A few tickets, at $ 300 for the Course, may still be obtained at Sever...
...summer term ends early in June, and the men by that time, having perhaps rowed in College Eights up here in the May Races, and again perhaps at Henley, also in College Boats, and not together for the University, are generally very stale, and would require much persuasion to begin again and row for another two months, being an exact repetition of what they had done before while preparing for the Inter-'Varsity Race in February and March, and besides many would be utterly prevented from rowing, so the crew would be in reality a different and not a representative...