Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Thanksgiving recess at Williams extends from Tuesday noon to Saturday morning; at Princeton from Wednesday noon to Monday morning; at Harvard from Thursday morning to Thursday night. Comment is unnecessary...
...COMMENT ON THE YALE-HARVARD GAME. -In the Harvard team Willard, Finney, Hurd, and Burgess were at variance with the general incapacity. The trouble with the Harvard men is that they are too dainty and shun the necessary exertion of playing foot ball to win. The players above named are good, but the other seven men do not properly support them. Especially Kimball, the Captain, falls below the standard of play which is expected of the leader of a Harvard University team. -[N. Y. Times...
...students gathered on Jarvis Field to see the long-talked-of match between the elevens chosen from the waiters at the upper and lower ends of Memorial Hall. The two elevens appeared, or rather straggled upon the field at about the same time, and were the subject of universal comment and admiration. The blues were headed by a pair of 200-pounders, about as large around as they were tall, while to offset them the reds showed up a couple of six-footers of stalwart build, one of whom was clad in a gorgeous crimson rowing jersey, and the other...
...last meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Mr. Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., spoke of the inscription on the base of John Harvard's statue, reading "John Harvard, founder, 1638," which gives the impression that this denotes the year in which our college was founded. As considerable comment has been caused by the date on the inscription, Mr. Wintrop's remarks will be of general interest...
...complete familiarity with the Rugby game. This is certainly an apparently dismal outlook; but we do hope that every effort will be made to offset the bad effect of these defeats by victories in the future. As for the game on Saturday, we prefer not to make any editorial comment on it until all the aspects of the case have been looked into...