Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...preacher conducting morning prayers may be found at Wadsworth House 1 every week-day during his term of service...
...Fault is found with Princeton for playing Ames because he has played in some base ball games for money, and therefore comes under the term professional. Affidavits have been shown to prove this, and a facsimile of a letter of Ames's tending in the same direction. It appears also that Ames and others have produced counter affidavits and declarations that the letter is a forgery. Now my first question: Why is it not fair and just to give Ames and Princeton the benefit of the doubt till the facts are established, or, at least, leave the question open...
Professionalism has been prevalent in Cambridge for years. A number of years ago a committee of the faculty investigated athletics, and found that the members of the nine were away from Cambridge almost one half of the spring term, playing with professionals. This state of affairs caused the faculty to vote that all members of athletic teams should be bona fide students and that there should be no professional coaches...
...American comedy "The Senator." The play is a satire on the American habit of always being in a hurry. The play wrights have selected a field hitherto unworked-life at the capitol, and have produced a comedy that is admirable in every particular. Mr. Crane has found in Hannibal Rivers, the senator, a role peculiarly adapted to his talents, and his success in it may safely be said to be greater than in any role he has previously essayed. His reception last night, from the time he first entered the stage until the curtain fell on the last...
...Shooting club won its second victory over Yale at Springfield on Saturday in a closely contested match. The conditions of the match were fifteen bluerocks and fifteen clay pigeons for each man. As no bluerocks could be obtained it was found necessary to substitute keystone birds. The strange birds and, the high wind which was blowing during the first part of the match materially affected the shooting at the beginning...