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...necessary to exclude Dartmouth from the league. The Harvard baseball team of 1882, complained of ill treatment the last time they played at Hanover; on the other hand, gentlemen who witnessed the game assert that a member of the Harvard team addressed very ungentlemanly words to the umpire, a Hanoverman. Thus the question, like nearly all others, has two sides. I understand that the reason given by the Harvard delegates for advocating last year the expulsion of Dartmouth from the league, was the difficulty of getting to Hanover. Now, an express train with the finest palace cars that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATIONS. | 3/6/1884 | See Source »

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