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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some time ago we mentioned the fact that the Shooting club was organizing a tournament. Owing to some unfortunate delay, only Yale will send a team, but delegates from other college gun clubs will be present. We regret that the original intention of the club to hold a large tournament could not be carried out, but we are glad that the Yale club has accepted the invitation. A contest between Harvard and Yale should call forth abundant interest, and in the match this afternoon the Shooting club has our heartiest wishes for success...
While recognizing the fact that lacrosse as an object of college interest and support cannot longer exist, we regret that the team could not have finished this year under favorable financial conditions. Whether supported or not, it has been for some years a Harvard University team and as such has made agreement for games in the league to which it belongs. If it forfeits these games so much to our discredit. But now it seems that the scheduled game will be played owing to the self sacrifice and high sense of honor of the members of the association. While...
...college takes no interest in lacrosse and a team that it feels no interest in it will not support. The fault is not in the team, but in the fact that there is no room for lacrosse; we have too many other and more interesting branches of athletics. Men do not care for lacrosse with all the other more popular sports. As long as a team cannot get the hearty support of the college its reason for existence is gone...
...feet) in 16 2-5 seconds, next the high jump, 5 feet, 8 1-2 inches; and lastly the quarter-mile run in 54 1-5 seconds. He also won the second prize in putting the shot. The credit of this performance can best be estimated by recalling the fact that there is at present no athlete at any of the colleges who can equal it. Fearing enters Harvard next year, and should be a valuable addition to the Mott Haven team...
...meeting this week of the directors of the club which has been known as the Economical Club and the University club, it was decided to again change the name. In view of the fact that the club is to occupy the Foxcroft house it is thought appropriate that it should be known as the Foxcroft Club. The organization is in a flourishing condition. The finance committee reported that over fourteen hundred dollars had been raised by subscription; this sum will be sufficient to fit up the house as intended. The house committee also made a very favorable report, which...