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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...manual training is attempted, the priest is sure to interfere. In the next place, work among the lowest class is of little benefit without a lifelong experience. Amiable feelings are held in contempt by these people, and unless there is some real work to be done, some common ground for both, friendly sentiments are useless. It is not worth while to attempt simple amusement, for the amount of sin or drunkenness is not decreased by it. Relations however, with the more intelligent and prosperous often prove of real benefit. There are many work men ambitious to study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Conference Meeting. | 12/19/1888 | See Source »

Freshmen, special students and upper-classmen admitted to advanced standing this year, may procure copies of the Regulations in University 2, ground floor, this afternoon between 4 and 5 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/18/1888 | See Source »

...college yard was the piece of ground lying between Harvard and Massachusetts Hall and the original Stoughton Halls, which stood facing the main gate and made the eastern side of a quadrangle. The old Stoughton Hall was more picturesque than the other dormitories: it was three stories high, had dormer windows, and made some pretensions toward architectural beauty. In this building and in Massachusetts-at that time a dormitory-forty to fifty students had their rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stoughton Hall--Past and Present. | 12/17/1888 | See Source »

...know from experience that a nine with scientific coaching can make more progress while the frost is coming out of the ground than any untrained team can make in an eternal summer of practice. It is the beginning which counts and is so vital to base-ball, and this is especially true of a college nine, for development must needs be very rapid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petition for the Employment of a Professional Coach for the Ball Nine Granted by the Athletic Committee. | 12/14/1888 | See Source »

According to the summary below the Cambridge High and Latin School team are winner in the series, with the Boston Latin a close second. The Boston Latin team has protested the Cambridge High and Latin-Boston Latin game on the ground that one of their men was disqualified contrary to rules. At an informal meeting of the donors of the cup, four of the six were present and they decided the protest against the Boston Latin School. The protest will be finally disposed of next Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Interscholastic Football Association. | 12/6/1888 | See Source »

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