Word: falled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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What strides the great Universi8ty has taken ! During all my early years our old Harvard Alma Mater sat still and lifeless as the colossi in the Egyptian desert. Then all at once, like the commander's statue in Don Giovanni, she moved from her pedestal. The fall of that "story foot" has effected a miracle like the harp that Orphens played, like the teeth which Cadmus sowed. The plain where the moose and the bear were wandering while Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, where a few plain dormitories and other needed buildings were scattered about in my school-boy days, groans...
Kellogg, '86, S., rowed last fall...
Patten, '87, S., rowed last fall...
PROFESSIONALS AT PRINCETON.In an editorial in its latest issue, the Princetonian complacently remarks: "At a time when the question of professional training is under just criticism, Princeton is fortunate in having retained the services of Mr. Jas. Robinson. His handling of the team last fall was careful and thorough, and we enjoyed the honor of placing in the field the best trained team in the league...
...material which is found to be best will be laid out upon Holmes and Jarvis Fields in places that will not interfere with the other sports, also a space for two more grass courts will be turfed adjacent to the other eight. This will give to the college next fall 45 courts, as good as any in the country. Should these not prove sufficient for the demand, in the following year (1886) courts to the number of 12 could be laid out on the Agassiz Museum grounds, and also about eight grass courts of medium worth on the grounds...