Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Daily practice has been commenced at Princeton in order to fill the vacancies in last year's football team. Five of last year's team remain. For the remaining places on the eleven the competition is close and the pracice games are exciting...
President Seelye says of compulsory exercise in the gymnasium, "by close statistics carefully kept for twenty years, it appears that the health of an Amherst College student is likely to grow better in each year of his college course. The average health of the sophomore class is better than that of the freshman, and of the junior better than that of the sophomore, and of the senior best of all. This average is shown to have come from an improvement in the physical condition of the individual student, and not from a dropping out of the course of those...
...base ball season for the college championship did not close until after Commencement, it was impossible to publish the averages of the several players and clubs during the last term so they are given now. From them we see that Harvard led in fielding, closely followed by Amherst, while at the bat Harvard was second to Yale. Of the individual Harvard players, Coolidge led at the bat, and all are well up in the list The best fielding for any nine was done by Hall, the first baseman, at Dartmouth; while Stewart, first baseman of Yale, and Smith of Harvard...
...present to the college will be erected on the delta to the west of Memorial Hall. General Bridge presented the statue of his ancestor Josiah Bridge to Cambridge not long ago and within a short time these two statutes of early settlers in the colony will stand in close proximity. The sculptor who has been selected to execute the design is a young man of promise, Mr. D. C. French, who has already modeled some well known figures, among them the "Minute Man" at Concord, Mass., and a bust of Emerson. In his pretty little studio at Concord the work...
...excellent physical condition people expected to see as fine a race as over was rowed on the American Thames. And they were not disappointed. At hald-past two the Yale men were already in their shell and at the starting flag, near the west bank and close to the observation train. Their appearance was greeted with cheers as was also that of our crew a few minutes later, when they came across from their quarters on the opposite bank...