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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball. The games are of almost daily occurrence at present, and furnish an ample fund of amusement for crowds of spectators as well as for the men engaged in the sport. The unwillingness of the expert players to come out and referee the games seems now to be the chief blemish on the complete happiness of the amateurs. This should not continue. Any man thus asked should consider it his duty to go out and aid his twenty-two fellow students in their efforts, however unavailing, to play good foot-ball, not only on the score of good nature...
...crowd bore the winning team from the field on their shoulders, and after nightfall a hugh bonfire on the campus celebrated the victory. The game was well-contested throughout, and free from unpleasant incidents; it is said to have been the most exciting one ever played here. Harvard's chief fault seemed to be in the rusher losing the ball when tackled, and failure to keep when once in her possession. Her game as a whole, however, was exceedingly creditable. For Harvard the best work was done by Holden, Sears, Harding, Remington, Fletcher, Woodman and Porter; for Princeton, by Cowan...
...meeting of the Society last evening the constitution drawn up by the committee was slightly amended and passed. Its chief points are as follows: The society shall be known as The Conference Francaise (Harvard French Society.) It shall be conducted in French, and have for its object the practice of the French tongue among its members. Debates, readings and literary entertainments will be held at its meetings. At the next meeting Mr. Bocher will give a reading which will be followed by a debate. All intending to join the society must send their names to Mr. Kalopothakes, of executive committee...
...Index, which has now become almost as regular an institution of the college as the annual catalogue, will probably appear in the course of a week or two. It is a very different matter to compile such a pamphlet of valuable information as the Index contains, whose chief interest lies in the fact that it comprises a brief of all the athletic events which took place during the past year, together with an authentic list of all the members of the various college societies. In obtaining these names, however, much necessary trouble is experienced, as the secretaries of the different...
...grand triumphs of the centuries that have passed, we stand in the presence of that grand nation, born of the impulses that sprang up here and around us, and that we are permitted to signalize this event by our tributes of honor and appreciation to the distinguished, able, patriotic chief magistrate, the President of the United States. [Cheers; loud applause...