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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Only a short, desultory practice was indulged in yesterday as the weather was damp and cold. The ground was in very fair condition and showed the effect of careful attention during the summer. It is too soon yet to know whether there is any base-ball talent in '91, and it may be well to say here that every freshman who has played ball to any extent, should take the first opportunity of going to the field and practicing with the rest of the candidates. Rumor says that there are several very good players in the incoming class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Base-Ball. | 10/1/1887 | See Source »

...11/2 mile flag Columbia was over three lengths behind, and the gap between the two boats was widening at every stroke. The eel-grass certainly was having an effect which urged Harvard on to greater efforts. To those who have never seen the course, it may be of interest to know that it is not eel-grass itself that causes all the trouble. The grass does not get caught in the oars and clog the course of the boat, but it deadens the water, making the tide much weaker than it is in the west side in the channel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD-COLUMBIA RACE. | 9/29/1887 | See Source »

...boats neared the finish they were greeted by the usual New London concert, which at times sounds most pleasantly, and at others most disagreeably. This time, although the volume of noise was greater, the general effect produced was hardly equal to that rendered at the time of the Columbia race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Race. | 9/29/1887 | See Source »

...that meeting the proposed rules or changes shall be acted upon and be returned by the intercollegiate association with its approval or disapproval to the advisory committee at its summer meeting, to occur on the first Saturday in June. Those rules or changes approved shall forth with take effect; those disapproved shall go over for consideration until the following spring, unless they shall receive eleven votes in the advisory committee, in which case they shall immediately take effect. The advisory committee shall have, through Mr. Walter C. Camp, full supervision of editing and printing the rules for each year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Make Good Foot-Ball Rules. | 6/21/1887 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I have just observed that in your paper of the 10th, you seriously misprinted a notice of mine to the effect that the themes written in English 12 have been placed in Sever 3, to be taken by the writers, or if not taken before Class Day to be destroyed. This notice applies only to the themes written last year, including the twenty-four page substitutes for junior themes. Themes written by members of the present junior class will be returned at the end of next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/17/1887 | See Source »

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