Word: displays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mott Haven team as long-distance runners, no better opportunity for increasing their powers of endurance could be afforded them. The interest evinced in hare and hounds during the past three years is sufficient proof that the exhilarating sport has obtained a firm foothold here, and, with a proper display of energy on the part of the athletic management, the first run ought to be held early next week...
...MASS., Sept. 26. The series of defeats that Harvard athletic teams have received during the past three years at the hands of their old rivals from Yale seem to indicate either that the men from Cambridge do not enter into these contests with the same spirit that their rivals display, or that there is something wrong in the system itself...
...large delegation of the Harvard Canoe Club attended the meet of the A. C. A. last month, and the Harvard camp display on the gala night was reported as the finest in the camp...
...which the Harvard 'Varsity crews have taken part during the last four decades. The history of these intercollegiate races as it is thus outlined is very entertaining and instructive. Today the contest is narrowed down to a dogged struggle between two crews; formerly all the elements of a fine display were present. The changes which have taken place in the art of rowing since the days when the races were rowed on Lake Quinsigamond or Lake Saratoga, and when Harvard and Yale were willing to meet the crews of the smaller colleges seem to have been following a logical development...
...Boylston Prize speaking of last Thursday marked a great change in the style of declamation which has hitherto prevailed at Harvard Formerly every speaker was more or less prone to strain the natural effect of his address by an abundance of gestures and a pretentious oratorical display, thus sacrificing much of the intrinsic beauty of the piece. The speaking of night before last was characterized by coolness, simplicity and force; the gestures were few, but showed a careful judgement and the intonation was wonderfully clear. In one or two cases the coolness degenerated into coldness, and where the subject...