Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Glee Club gave a very enjoyable concert in the Yard last evening. A large crowd congregated in front of Matthews to hear them sing, and greeted their efforts with great enthusiasm...
...hard work, not by past glory. Harvard's weakest point yesterday was in batting. It was not until the last of the game that out nine at all succeeded in fathoming Princeton's pitching. Yesterday's contest was in fact, distinctly a pitcher's game, and as such, great credit is due Harvard's pitcher whose work, in his first championship game, was very praiseworthy. With one or two exceptions, the impartiality of the audience, in so far as it was composed of Harvard men, deserves commendation. This is a matter about which we cannot be too careful, especially since...
...much time is given to intercollegiate contests, I think no graduate will be found who would not favor reducing the number of games played; and if the expense is too great, all college athletes would favor any practical plan for decreasing it. But absolute prohibition of such contests does not seem the wisest way to bring about these ends...
...team from New Haven? It may be the wisest policy for our governing bodies to attempt to antagonize the students, but it is not in accordance with the spirit which has prevailed here in the last two decades, and it is subjecting the welfare of Harvard University to a great and imminent risk...
...Right Rev. William Croswell Deane, Episcopal Bishop of the Albany (N. Y.) diocese, who has been chosen Commencement Preacher by Cambridge University, England, is one of the most finished and eloquent pulpit orators in this country. He has frequently preached in England with great success...