Word: gave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...address to the students at the opening of the Columbia College sessions Monday, President Barnard gave them some excellent advice as to their studies and obedience to college rules. Then he showed the boys that he took an interest in athletics by complimenting them upon the promise they had shown. He told them that he had recently visited Harvard University, and while there was shown through the handsome gymnasium. In a case he noticed a number of colored balls, which, the young gentleman who acted as his escort said, were trophies of base-ball games won from other colleges. These...
Yesterday's practice gave the first indications of what the future of Harvard foot-ball would be. There is material enough, that is evident. There is enthusiasm enough. The captain is able and energetic. But all these accessory attributes to a good foot-ball team are as nothing when compared to the one quality which has always been distinguished by its absence from our teams - skill. Our men play a good game after their own light; - that is, they let centre snap the ball to the quarter-back, and quarter-back throw it to a half-back, and then...
...edited and revised Otto's German Grammar and had since that time made preparations for the writing of a Grammar of the same language upon a plan of his own. His literary work was marked by the same care and attention to detail which gave a peculiar stamp to his teaching. He was, indeed, in all the relations of life, strictly conscientious and governed by a certain relentless sense of duty...
...Theatre, followed by the scratch races; in the afternoon, a university championship foot-ball game (arrangements not yet perfected); in the evening, a grand torchlight procession, illustrating the history of the university, followed by an illumination of the yard and a countermarch of the procession. The student anniversary committee gave the charge of the literary exercises into the hands of the two literary societies, the O. K. and the Signet. The order of exercises was determined upon by a joint committee of the two societies as follows: An oration, delivered by Mr. F. E. E. Hamilton, '87; a poem, read...
...gave a very enjoyable strawberry night yesterday which was well attended by past and present members of the society...