Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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HOPEFUL COLUMBIA.-Our outlook for the race against Harvard next June is very promising. We have only lost two men from last year's 'Varsity crew, the other six remaining in college. Sixteen are candidates, of whom ten are now working in the gymnasium under Captain Meikleham, the other six...
It it highly probable that the crew at a later period will be reinforced by one or two of the present candidates of the university crew. The crew is at present rowing in very good form. There are of course many individual faults, but of the crew as a whole...
A few days ago we expressed our surprise at the manner in which the committee chosen by the students to draw up a petition to the faculty for the retention of foot ball, had performed their work. We regret that a better acquaintance with the facts has not caused us...
Ten members of the Shooting Club reported at Watertown, yesterday afternoon, to shoot the final competition in the winter series This small attendance is partly to be accounted for by the cloudy, raw weather, but principally by the fact that the contest for the leading places had been narrowed down...
The number of men who prefer to stay in Cambridge rather than "go down for the holidays," as our English undergraduate cousins say, is growing larger every year. This year about an even hundred spent the vacation at college, and some of the occurrences of the period may interest the...