Word: establish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...comes off next Saturday at 12 o'clock on the New York Polo Grounds. The following clubs will contest for the Oehlrich cup: Yale, Princeton, New York University, New York, Bloomfield, Harvard. After the match there will be a contest in long throwing with the crosse in order to establish a United States record. Two members from each club will enter this contest. The prize offered is a silver-mounted lacrosse stick. The Harvard team will be made up as follows: Easton, goal; Davis, point ; Noble, cover point ; Marquand and Thorndike, defense fielders ; Coit, Williams and Ennis, centre fielders ; Nichols...
Freshmen are particularly urged to lend their active support to the management of the Harvard Athletic Association in endeavoring to establish a fall freshman meeting, and to make it this year a success. This they must do by taking an active interest in the meeting and attending it in full force, but more especially by entering all available men for the various contests. '86 is expected to distinguish herself in athletics, and this fall is none too soon for a beginning. Let every man who has the least chance of success enter for some events in his class meeting...
...graduates of Yale have recently taken in hand the better organization of the University Club, the idea of which originated some months ago, but for want of vigorous management the project did not come to a successful issue. The intention of the founders, we are told, is to establish a pleasant and elegant club-house where students and graduates can meet in social converse, and where they can find music, the periodicals, billiards, cafes and similar innocent delights to make college life in New Haven as agreeable and attractive as is possible under the circumstances. The plan seems...
...senior class may at first sight seem severe, it is now too late to think of rescinding their former vote. To give any such action of a class any weight, it must be thoroughly understood that their vote is decisive and final. To reconsider the matter now, would establish a bad precedent and would render any vote of a future class worthless. There has been a great deal of misunderstanding about this matter generally, and particularly among the freshmen. They must not think that the intention was to shut them out from the tree, because they were freshmen...
...House committee on the judiciary have authorized Representative Humphrew of Wisconsin to report to the House a bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy...