Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Undergraduate life of those days was not half as rosy as it has been painted. There is painful evidence that snobbishness was far more prevalent than it is now, and that is saying a good deal. One of the most remarkable customs of the early days of the college was...
About two hundred enthusiastic Harvard graduates sat down to a gorgeous banquet at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York on Monday night. The hall was hung with the crimson banner of the club, with the coat of arms, and the date of the founding of the club, 1865.
Yale has seen fit to overrule the opinions of her most prominent base-ball men, and to accept those of her boating men and ten-year graduates, thereby placing herself in an unenviable light before the eyes of other large colleges. As the matter stands now, it seems to have...
The spring of 1868 opened with a decided fall in the base-ball thermometer, owing to the Harvard-Lowell controversy of the preceding summer - settled by melting the silver ball, the bone of contention. Harvard had won the ball from Lowell in the face of great opposition and public disapproval...
The games in which the nine took part during the rest of the season are devoid of much interest. "Wabars," "Excelsiors" and "Eagles" go down to the tune of 34 to 20, 26 to 10, and 59 to 21. In these last two games base hits are first recorded. Harvard...