Word: facings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen, who will be brought face to face with the Andover and Exeter elevens later in the fall, will read with interest a few facts on the relative merits of those teams as given in the Exonian. It says: "We have no grounds upon which to assume any superiority, and cannot, therefore, speak too encouragingly of victory this fall. Andover is trying, with every possible effort, to perfect the deficiencies of their team by constant training and practice. They are said to spend habitually from two to three hours each day at labor with the leather, and, although they fail...
Without any further Shelly shallying we believe the college may as well squarely face the present outlook in foot-ball, and see just how desperate our chances for success have really become. It is only by so doing, and then, in the full realization of all this means, by rousing from our present strange lethargy to new energy, that even a ghost of a show of winning the championship is left us. To anyone who has watched the men practicing on Jarvis, these words are perhaps unnecessary, for all such must have noticed, not only how few men were...
...more the smiling face of Lampy is to greet the scores of friends who await his first issue, and very glad we are that our college work is to be brightened by the fortnightly coming of his crimson-covered pages. One of Harvard's settled landmarks has the Lampoon grown to be, and one that we should sorely miss, we that have grown so used to awaiting with expectation its regular advent through our letter-slips. First in the field of college humorous papers, and always best, the Lampoon richly deserves the reputation it has won and now enjoys...
...already modeled some well known figures, among them the "Minute Man" at Concord, Mass., and a bust of Emerson. In his pretty little studio at Concord the work of modeling has been done and the casting has just been completed at the works of Bounard at New York. The face of the statute is necessarily an ideal one as no representation of Harvard is extant. All that is known of him, on which to work, are the facts that he was young, studious and a dissenting minister...
...Saturday afternoon we were favored with a visit from the whole Columbia University, and had a very pleasant talk with them. Among the rest we noticed the familiar face of Mr. Reckhart, the veteran of the crew, and who, with his hundred and ninety 1bs. vastly overtops any of the rest of the crew. On Sunday the monotony of the quarters was broken by a visit to Mr. Hammond, on his hospitable invitation. thanks to Mr. Hammond and Dr. Borland, life at the quarters has been thus pleasantly varied on Sundays for the last two or three years. What everyone...