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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sixth hare and hound run of the season was held yesterday afternoon, the course being up Concord avenue to Fresh Pond and around the pond. The break was from the west end of Mt. Auburn. Kuhn and Alexander, L. S., the hares, came in twenty-nine minutes ahead of F. B. Dana, '88, the first hound in. Davenport, '90, was a few seconds behind Dana. The rest of the twenty hounds came in well bunched close after the leader. Dana, '88, served as master of the hounds. The run was one of the best of the season...
...victory for the blue has been planned as carefully and thoroughly as a general plans a campaign. The second reason, somewhat akin to the first, is found in the hearty co-operation of old foot-ball players among the alumni and their willingness to coach the team toward the end of the season, even at some sacrifice of business or professional interests...
...report of the score after the first half and at the end of Thursday's game will be telegraphed by the special correspondent of the CRIMSON, and will be posted in Leavitt and Peirce...
...saying too much if we declare that, at a dinner of Harvard alumni, any assertion by the captain of our football eleven that showed an intention "to fight the referee" as well as our opponents, would have placed an effective damper on the applause that would greet the end of his speech. More than this, severe and outspoken censure would be freely bestowed on him. Harvard means to fight its battles openly and squarely, and not to court success by bullying justice into closing an eye to foul play...
...Ordinary people saw a magnificent exhibition of cultivated strength and beautiful daring, with very few and very slight casualities, except in a single instance; they saw a dash and courage and enthusiasm that made one think better of the mortal part of human nature; and in the end a group of eager, flushed, panting young men, exhausted somewhat, of course, with such tremendous physical effort, but bright of eye, clear of voice, and as fine to look upon, in spite of awkward garb, as any heroic figures of triumphant Greek athletes...