Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...State. The matter was brought forward prominently by the Harvard Club of New York, last spring, and finally they have been successful. It is easy to see the advantage of this step. It will tend to increase the patronage of the University, to remove those evils which beset all close corporations, and to make the influence of Harvard national rather than sectional...
...close of his lecture on Chemistry, Professor Cooke invited the Freshmen in a body to meet him at his house...
...noticed among the players, especially those of Ernst, Leeds, Tower, and Thatcher. But the year was one of defeats: Princeton won two games; Yale won two, thus getting the championship for the first time, and also whitewashing us by 4 to 0. This is a fitting place to close this record of the first period of our Nine's history, for in 1875 several changes were introduced into the game, notably the substitution of curve pitching for the old-time under-arm pitching...
...THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday at 2. To-night and to-morrow, last performances of the "Spectre Knight," and "Charity Begins at Home," two pleasant little pieces, which are well worth seeing, especially the second. Mr. Bell, as Joe, is very amusing. This theatre brings its season to a close this week...
GLOBE THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday at 2. The San Francisco Minstrels bring a very successful season to a close this week. Charles Backus and Billy Birch are as amusing as ever. The performance ends with "Beadle's Pirates for Ten Cents," a good burlesque of the more familiar "Pirates...