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After a lapse of three years the University Association football team will begin the season when it meets the Andover team on Soldiers Field at 2.30 this afternoon. During the week the team has been put through stiff practice under the direction of Coach Burgess. Yesterday, however, except for a series of races, the practice was light. Particular attention was paid to passing and dribbling...
...material with which Coach Burgess has been working this fall is excellent. Almost the entire team has either played on the University team or on Freshman teams before. G. Tilton '20, the captain, is the most experienced man on the field, while C. Masters '22 and V. B. Kellett Occ. both combine speed with good foot-work...
Coach Charlie Burgess put his soccer squad through a stiff two hours of practice yesterday afternoon in preparation for their opening game with Andover on Saturday. The team, under Captain Gardner Tilton '20, has been working hard this week in practice games with scrub teams composed of former players from the Graduate Schools, and Coach Burgess seems well pleased with the results. "This is the best practice we have had this year," he remarked yesterday. "The material is surely there, and it is developing rapidly. The whole team is getting more confidence in their own offensive ability, and the defense...
There is now on exhibition in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library a collection of books, views and manuscripts connected with the early history of the University. The most notable of this collection is the Burgess view of Harvard College issued in 1726, of which there is only one other copy extant. This is the earliest view of the College published. The engraving is nearly obliterated, but a later print, made from the other copy which is in the same case, enables one to fill in the gaps in the original...
Next to the Burgess view is the almost equally rare engraving of the College by Paul Revere, published in 1767. This engraving, from which the familiar print of the early College was made, is in a far better state of preservation...