Word: fall
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students are earnestly requested to preserve the Tabular Views which the Faculty has so generously distributed free of charge, as none will be given out next fall. The cause of this new departure in economy is not known...
Juniors. - Carey: Speech of Mark Antony, Shakespeare. Clapp: Charles Sumner, Curtis. W. W. Coolidge: The Fall of Babylon, Da Ponte. Donaldson: The Last Soliloquy of Dr. Faustus, Marlowe. Evans: Rebuke to Cowardly Lords in 1852, Tennyson. Hale: Recreation, Helps. Hyde: The Gifted, Carlyle. Mercer: Speech of Henry V. before Agincourt, Shakespeare. Perkins: The Cloud, Shelley. Poor: The True Grandeur of Nations, Sumner. E. Robinson: The Rights of an English Subject, Erskine. Sargent: A Legend of Bragance, Adelaide Procter. Swayze: Boston and the Old South, Phillips. C. L. Wells: Immediate Emancipation, Brougham...
...Cups. - It is to be hoped that the beauty of the cups given by the H. A. A. will induce men to train hard next fall. The prizes offered then will be as handsome as those given now, and as the boat-houses are to be closed for the year in June, it is to be hoped that every one who can will train for and enter into the athletic sports...
...excellent, - remarkable when we consider that it was made on a track of loose dirt, instead of a cinder path. The Bicycle Race produced capital sport, every inch of the three miles being closely contested. It was, we believe, the first race ridden by amateurs in the country. Next fall, with a proper cinder track on Holmes or Jarvis, we hope to see larger fields of starters and equally fast and close races. The time made in all the events proves that as athletes we are, with proper training, inferior to none. A little self-denial, more and harder exercise...
...last of all there was a race of three legs, which contest is of this sort: two youths being bound together as to their inner legs, endeavoring thus to run, fall on the ground many times, as is likely. And the race was won by two youths, more young and tender than their companions, and called by them Freshmen...