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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hotly contested throughout, Harvard defeated the Carlisle Indians on Saturday, twenty-two to ten. Except for permitting the touchdown, which was made by the Indians on a fumble in the first minutes' play, the Harvard team exceeded general expectations and rolled up a good score against opponents of great reputation for strength. On the offensive Harvard was much stronger than the Indians, and was rarely held for downs. The defense, as was expected, kept the ball so far from the goal line that Hudson could not kick a goal from the field until the presence of substitutes weakened the Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDIANS DEFEATED. | 10/30/1899 | See Source »

...answer to an attack on athletics before the Mass. Schoolmasters' Club last Saturday, Professor A. B. Hart spoke informally on behalf of athletics. He characterized college and school sports as a great force making for righteousness and said that training was a moral safeguard. Harvard's intellectual and moral standard's are higher today than they were twenty years ago which would not be true were athletics injurious. Athletic sport makes the student stand forth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Hart on Athletics | 10/30/1899 | See Source »

...made a thirty yard run on an exchange of kicks to the twenty-yard line, Gierasch carried it across the goal line behind well-formed interference. In the second half he scored again, this time from the middle of the field. Fincke's work at quarter was a great improvement, and his work in the interference was as strong as usual. Campbell's playing was good. Burnett missed a goal from the forty-yard line, besides making some poor passes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Practice Yesterday. | 10/27/1899 | See Source »

...Chamberlin, Secretary for the Colonies, finally took up the case of the Outlanders and proposed that they either be allowed to vote, or else be given a municipal government of their own. A conference between President Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner resulted in a great deal of discussion, but no tangible result. Offers by the English government were all refused, and the alternative suggestion made by President Kruger was so hampered by conditions as to be impossible of acceptance. Mr. Chamberlin's reply to this suggestion was by no means mild, and from this time on negotiations became more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR MACVANE'S LECTURE | 10/26/1899 | See Source »

Concerning the two legislative Chambers or Raads: The original Raad was, in 1891, supplemented by a second chamber in order to give the Outlanders a voice in the government. This Raad, however, has no power, the older house which is the great legislative body entirely controlling the second Raad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR MACVANE'S LECTURE | 10/26/1899 | See Source »

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