Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will allow, until Tufts College of renown appears on a not very distant summit straight before us. This famous institution once sighted, we must not fail to climb the hill and get the view. The first thing however to attract our attention will be the reservoir, which is confidently close to the college buildings. The swimming tank which so many Harvard men have longed for in Cambridge is here provided by civil authority for the benefit of the Tufts men. As we walk about the reservoir, let us take in the view. Look down into the valley of the Mystic...
...lowered, and our Catalonian triumvirate would have purified athletics, and restored their pristine simplicity and cheapness. The results of giving up our regular coach may not be as disastrous to our boating prospects as an order to row in a barge; but when four mile races have become so close as to be won in a few seconds, any change which injures our chances of success in the slightest degree, must meet with the utmost opposition...
...waiters of Memorial. This important match was played on Jarvis, in the presence of about 100 students, and resulted in a victory for the team representing the west, or lower end of the hall, by a score of 14 to 8. Another diversion was created, soon after the close of the game, by the appearance of a procession composed of a fife and drum corps, a wheel barrow, a jubilant, and somewhat suspiciously hilarious Cleveland man, and a perspiring and crestfallen Blaine man, the whole escorted by about 200 urchins...
...Committee on Athletics, having become convinced that the game of foot ball, as at present played by college teams, is brutal, demoralizing to players and to spectators, and extremely dangerous, propose to request the faculty to prohibit the game after the close of the present season...
...having hit a Yale man was caught by Hurd, who made a pretty rush, the best made by any Harvard man. Harvard worded hard, but Yale forced the ball, when Terry, getting a catch in mid-field, made his only successful run of the day, and carried the ball close to the line. Bayne slipped through the Harvard rush line and made the last touchdown, from which Terry kicked goal number six. Score, 48-0. But few minutes remained. Bemis downed Richards, who tried to run, Coxe tried to gain ground, and from the "down" he made the ball...