Word: facings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...either being deemed superfluous or from other reasons, being left at home. The rules governing lacrosse provide that in case one side is short, players to the number of three may be withdrawn from the other side, but no more, and accordingly the six New Yorkers were obliged to face nine wearers of the crimson. This superiority in numbers, it is possible, decided the game in Harvard's favor, for after the first desperate onslaught of New York the ball seldom threatened their opponents' goal. The six made it lively however at all times, and through their very paucity...
...exciting match. The sport is, however, comparatively young, and bids fair to receive a strong impetus from that source which has ever tended to popularize and strengthen the existence of every legitimate game - the colleges. Harvard was the first college to introduce lacrosse, and has done it in the face of almost no support at all from any except the members of its club. The expenses of the aquatic crew, base-ball nine, foot-ball and athletic teams are paid from the treasuries of these institutions, which are filled by subscriptions of the students. The treasury of the lacrosse club...
...great pity that the crew dinner should prove a fiasco, especially after their hard-won race last June. If it were ever becoming to banquet a crew, it would certainly be this one, who labored perseveringly in the face of defeat prophesied on all hands and were finally victorious over rivals whose method was considered easy victory or ruination, and which proved neither one nor the other. The subscribers for the dinner have come forward in ridiculously small numbers, either through forgetfulness of the near approach of the date assigned or for some less charitable reason. Let us hope...
Superintendent Childs of the Mount Auburn cemetery, was shot in the face and robbed on Mount Auburn street Saturday morning at about eleven o'clock. The perpetrator of the deed, who got away with $600, is not known...
...reading matter, and has always been a credit to the university. Looking back on its career it seems incredible that such a paper, one that is representative in every sense, could be suffered to discontinue for financial reasons, and yet the fact is staring the college in the face. There is no valid reason why the four hundred subscribers should not be secured, and they will be easily obtained if every man sees to it such appeal to. Harvard ought to be necessary, but since it seems to be so let it be generously heeded...