Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game this fall was to be played at New Haven. Knowing this, the manager of the Harvard '88 eleven, after having looked over the calendar to find open dates, sent to New Haven proposing either Thanksgiving day or Nov. 29 as dates on which to play. Mr. Albert S. Cook, manager of the Yale eleven, also named two dates, the 12th and 15th of November. Word was sent at once that on neither of those two dates could the Harvard men travel to New Haven: on the twelfth, because contrary to faculty regulations: on the 15th because the Princeton game...
...many other things, has been changed at Eton. Walking through the town the other day an old Etonian, who had known Plancus, observed in a shopwindow certain leg-guards, not unlike those worn by cricketers, but lighter and less hampering to the limbs. As was the case with Nell Cook on a certain memorable occasion, "fully filled his eyes," and he walked into the shop to ask if it were possible that Eton boys wore such things. "Well, sir," was the answer, "I think they don't like it known, but as a matter of fact they...
...college faculties of Southern New England met recently at Amherst. The subject discussed was the selection of physics and chemistry to the college curriculum: It was generally agreed that to demand any preparation in the preparatory schools in these branches inadvisable, at least for the present. Professors Trowbridge and Cook represented Harvard in the convention...
...last week we printed a communication relative to clapping and applause at the lectures in freshman chemistry. The writer himself a freshman, strongly condemned the practice, and asked his classmates, as gentlemen, to abandon it. We have been told, however, that the applause is confined to clapping, on Professor Cook's entrance and at the close of the lecture. If this is the case, we should be very sorry to have the custom given up. It has many years past been the habit of the freshman chemistory sections to applaud Professor Cook. The act has been one of friendly feeling...
Players: Exeter- rushers, Cook, Woodbury, Williams, Higgins, St. Clair, Cranson and Bass; quarterback, Wurtemburg; halfbacks, Harding and Moulton (Capt.); fullback, Morrison...