Word: fall
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...comes the first decisive test of the work done by our eleven this fall. In spite of the fact that injuries had rendered many of the most promising candidates for the team unfit for playing, Captain Holden had gotten together an eleven of which the University might be proud. But now at the last moment we are crippled sorely by the loss of Sears and Cumnock, whose services can ill be spared...
...this misfortune, we are confident that the eleven that Harvard sends to the contest today will make a showing of which no one need be ashamed. But whether Harvard wins to-day, or whether she loses, highest praise is due those men who have worked so faithfully all the fall for the glory of their college...
...fall games of the Athletic Association came off last Wednesday and were a greater success than any fall meeting has ever been heretofore. Though the day was cold and blustering, there was a large number of starters in the event, and quite a crowd of spectators braved the weather to lend success to the meeting. King, '88, captured the final heat in the hundred yard dash in the remarkably good time, considering the condition of the track and the wind directly in his face, of 10 1-5 seconds. The records, as a rule, were not very good, but quite...
...students and faculty of St. John College in Minnesota are engaged in a hunt after a meteor which was seen to fall at no great distance from the college...
...fall of 1868, the Everett Athenaeum, a sophomore society, was formed by certain members of '71. For some years the Institute has been the sole society for sophomores, and many men had necessarily no society. The founders of the Everett Athenaeum were men of literary tastes, and it was due to their efforts that the society assumed such a high literary standard. According to the constitution, a board of three editors were to be appointed, whose duty it was to present alternately, at intervals of two weeks, a paper not to exceed thirty minutes in length. At every meeting...