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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exacting of the crew, by their over-long course of training, and by excluding them from the festivities and graduation events of commencement week, and too certain to be of a purely processional character, to justify their continuance. They were the pioneer contests, but the other, and, perhaps, better ones have succeeded them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: About College Athletics. | 12/2/1887 | See Source »

...Some one objects that it will seem to indicate a kind of contempt of the smaller colleges. Not in the least. Games can be played with them which are not matches, and the practice which they would get at New Haven and Cambridge would be desirable. It will be better for the smaller colleges. Take the experience of Weyleyan at foot-ball, for instance. That plucky college has made an earnest and enthusiastic effort to win at foot-ball. Its boys have labored just as conscientiously as those of Yale and Harvard, but they are beaten simply by the limitations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: About College Athletics. | 12/2/1887 | See Source »

...Harvard that we have special rates for them, and suggest an early sitting if pictures for Xmas are desired. Last year we were obliged to turn people away, but having enlarged the studio, and with increased facilities, we guarantee to all who favor us as good, if not better, work than can be obtained elsewhere.- PACH'S STUDIO, H. Wm. Tupper, Manager and Photographer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 12/1/1887 | See Source »

...Harvard that we have special rates for them, and suggest an early sitting if pictures for Xmas are desired. Last year we were obliged to turn people away, but having enlarged the studio, and with increased facilities, we guarantee to all who favor us as good, if not better, work than can be obtained elsewhere.- PACH'S STUDIO, H. Wm. Tupper, Manager and Photographer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 11/30/1887 | See Source »

...Harvard that we have special rates for them, and suggest an early sitting if pictures for Xmas are desired. Last year we were obliged to turn people way, but having enlarged the studio, and with increased facilities, we guarantee to all who favor us as good, if not better, work than can be obtained elsewhere.- PACH'S STUDIO, H. Wm. Tupper, Manager and Photographer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 11/29/1887 | See Source »

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