Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...goals and one touchdown to nothing. A few days later, Harvard played a return match with them in Montreal, scoring one goal to nothing for Brittania. The following Monday, in spite of snow and extremely disagreeable weather, a game was commenced with the McGill team, but, at the close of the first half, both teams were ready to withdraw and the game was called, with the score, one goal and one touchdown to nothing, in Harvard's favor...
...team played three games with the Canadians, winning two and tieing one with Montreal; Brittania was defeated in Boston, two goals to nothing, and the Ottawa team in Ottawa, after a very close and exciting game, with the score of two goals and one touchdown to one goal and one touchdown, was defeated. Both of our goals were very prettily kicked from the field. In 1881 we defeated the Montreal team in Boston, playing with fourteen men, the score standing two goals to nothing...
...although weather permitted the race to be rowed on the day set, yet all the crew men, and especially seniors, were hurried in their preparations for the final examinations. Last year, when a delay of six days was caused by bad weather, the race was brought so close on to the examinations that the seniors were compelled to refuse to row if the race was postponed another day. This year, when the very existence of a senior crew depends upon an early date, will be a good time to inaugurate a change which will be for the benefit of class...
...come amiss to most of them. Let us bear in mind that proctors are mortals like ourselves. A good many people are under the same hallucination that Phyllis was in "Iolanthe," until she found out with surprise that the fairy, Iolanthe, "kisses just like other people." Proctors, on close inspection, are found to be surprisingly like other students. Although there is need of some reform in regard to the performance of their duties, yet, on the whole, the institution deserves to exist, if for no other reason, merely because it spends the money of the university in a meritorious...
Secretary Chandler has decided to close four navy-yards on the 31st of next March...