Word: clubbings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...time. The custom of playing a series of games seems almost entirely to have superseded the single game of former years, and it is, I think, the only true way of testing the respective merits of the two Nines. Leaving out of the question the advantage gained by the club on whose grounds the single game is played, there are many benefits which accrue to each college from a series. By this plan, the friends of each college are sure to see one of the games played on their own grounds, and so, of course, more interest is excited; besides...
...Harvard Glee Club and the Pierian Sodality will give their first concert of the season at Lyceum Hall, on Tuesday evening, March 25. We learn that the Pierians are playing even better than usual this winter; while, in spite of many obstacles, the Glee Club will, we doubt not, acquit itself well. The Pierians are to play the overture, Le Lac de Fees, by Auber, the Inman Line March, Grafenberger waltzes, minuet by Mozart, solos for the cornet and violoncello, and a piano-forte duet. The Glee Club will try conclusions with May-Night, by Abt, Trooper's Song...
...defraying a part of the general expenses. The keys of the boat-house are now ready for members. It is reasonable to hope that the appeal soon to be made to the generosity of the undergraduates will bring forth at least a part of the sum which the Boat Club both deserves and needs...
...members; by this means the expense of the society is very much lessened. An hour and a half is whiled away in conversation carried on in German, in the use of which language some have attained remarkable proficiency for so short a time. Since everything connected with this club is to be distinctly German, the collations prepared are of a frugal character, and will probably be entirely dispensed with after the first of May. The object of the society is praiseworthy, and it is looked upon by the Professors of Modern Languages connected with the College as a very useful...
...neglect by those having the highest authority in the matter, we will simply state the fact that we have now been members of the Club nearly three years, and that during this time not a single member of the Faculty has entered the place where the constitutions, the manners, and, in some degree, the characters of one half the young men intrusted to their care were being formed...