Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are several reasons why the date should be changed. In the first place the race as now rowed is apt to come close upon the annual examinations, as was shown by last year's experience. In the next place experience for the last three years at least has shown that good weather can not be counted upon nor hardly expected about the middle of May. Again, training becomes very irksome when continued too far into the summer, especially when the men know that lost time must be made up by excessive grinding. Finally, it would be better...
...FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.]WILLIAMSTOWN, Dec. 4, 1882. Saturday afternoon, Nov. 25, the pent-up antagonism between the sophomores and freshmen found vent in a sharply contested foot-ball game. After a close struggle the referee awarded the game to the freshmen, the score being one goal to nothing. The goal was sharply disputed by many, who maintain that the ball was carried by the wind several feet outside the poles...
...have a taste for gymnasium work have exercised so long that there is not the same room for improvement in their case as in the case of those men who have taken but little regular exercise. With so large a number of entries the contest will doubtless be very close, and the result will be awaited with much interest...
...Brevities" published in the weekly Crimson, a close estimate shows 60 to have been taken substantially from the HERALD, while over 20 are covert or open puffs of a Cambridge bookseller...
...have said is only in the way of a warning, and cannot discourage a team which knows its own merits and faults better than the majority of its critics. We feel sure that on their own grounds they are ready to win the championship or play a very close game for it. The college in general is prepared for the most brilliant issue, and will not entertain a sincere doubt until the fact is demonstrated that we are to be champions or are not to be, and it promises all the support that can come from a thousand voices...