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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Gymnastic Association has not been kept up this year owing to the late opening of the gymnasium and to the lack of interest in the middle of the winter. Next fall, Dr. Sargent intends to start it again, and engage a suitable instructor to coach...
...Mott Haven games, will be held tomorrow afternoon on the Manhattan Beach track. The college scoring most points in these races has five points to its credit, the second two, and the third one. Harvard has entered a team of eight men. Hewitt, Powers and Baker went on the Fall River boat yesterday, with the rubber. Captain Wood, Burdett, Hurt, Richards and Dacy go on the three o'clock train today. The team will stay at the United States Hotel in Sheepshead Bay, which is quite near the track. The track is a third of a mile like the Cambridgeport...
...trustees of the University of Illinois have been indicted by the grand jury of Champaign County for neglecting to raise the American flag over the university buildings, in accordance with a recent act of the legislature. There are laws which fall into disuse, and statutes that are mentioned only with contempt; but it is a pleasure to feel that our flag laws are not made to be laughed at and disregarded-but to be respected and obeyed. The sentiment they embody is too important to be trifled with...
...Cricket Eleven will leave for Philadelphia this evening by the Fall River boat to play the University of Pennsylvania and Haverford for the intercollegiate championship. A match will be played Thursday with the Philadelphia Club, one of the strongest in Philadelphia. Friday the match with the University of Pennsylvania takes place and Saturday with Haverford. The Harvard eleven will be as follows: P. H. Clark '96, G. Lippincott '96, W. W. Comfort Gr., W. W. Duckering Med., E. H. Wells '97, E. du Pont '97, H. G. Gray '97, H. D. Scott '98, T. M. Hastings '98, C. F. Morgan...
Last evening the Shooting Team left by the Fall River boat for Princeton, where they will shoot this afternoon against Princeton for the Intercollegiate Shooting Trophy given by "Shooting and Fishing." Unfortunately Yale is not able to compete this year. Princeton has already won the cup twice and needs to win it but once more to keep it for good. The Harvard team is composed of C. A. Hardy '97, captain; S. T. Harris '97, F. G. Shaw '97, P. Dove '98, G. H. Kinnicutt '98. Hardy, Harris and Dove have shot in former intercollegiate matches and have...