Word: fall
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second ice polo game with Brown which has been several times postponed, will, if possible, be played this afternoon on Spy Pond. In spite of the recent heavy fall of snow, the pond has been cleared off so that the skating is now very good...
...building will be completed by next fall if possible. It will aim to put the cost of living within the means of every student; the large number of students will probably reduce the price of board to between seven and ten dollars a week...
...invested funds of the University now amount to $8,526,813.67, an increase of $5,120,160.24 in twenty years. The general fall in the rate of interest during the past year has embarrassed many departments of the University which depend upon the income of permanent funds. During the year 1895 96 the amount of gifts and bequests to the University was $243,791.05. "During the same period at least five American universities, all situated outside of New England, received much larger additions to their endowments. If the primacy of Harvard University among American institutions of education...
...Yale now centres in the university crew, which was called out last week. It was well into the season last spring that the stroke was changed to that used by the Yale crews of several years ago. For the first time in many seasons there was systematic practice last fall under the eye of Mr. Cook...
Gentlemen, the blow does not fall upon the class of Ninety-seven alone; it falls upon the whole body of students; it falls upon the graduates who year after year have gathered about the old Tree and revived the memory of their college days. I have no sympathy with the sentimentality which defends a bad custom just because it is an old custom. I believe that the scrimmage about the Tree is not only an old custom but a good one. I believe that it can be and has been conducted in a manly, fair way, and that hundreds...