Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...proof of the interest in athletics at Harvard, two men witnessed the performances of the Tennis Club last Tuesday...
...publisher of "Harvard and Its Surroundings" proposes, in case one hundred subscriptions can be obtained, to get out a special edition of his book for the Senior Class. This edition will be bound in crimson cloth covers, with bevelled boards, and gilt edges; it will be printed on heavy paper, the pictures will be rearranged and some new ones added; and the advertisements - including the steel engraving of the Riverside Press - will be left out. At the end of the book will be placed a list of the present and past members of the Class of '78, together with...
...Harvard-Yale. The meeting between the presidents and captains of Yale's navy and ours last Saturday at New London resulted in making satisfactory arrangements for the race, which will take place Friday, June 28; the time of the day to be decided afterwards...
Columbia-Oxford. In our last issue lack of space prevented us from commenting on the letter from Cambridge, Mass., to a New York daily quoted in this column. The correspondent from Cambridge entirely misunderstood Captain Bancroft when he wrote that "Harvard feels badly because Oxford has not challenged her rather than Columbia." We wish to correct this statement, which places us in a false position. No such feeling prevails at Harvard either among the men of the crew or among the students...
BASE BALL.The New York World commenting on the book, "Harvard and Its Surroundings," says: "The mention of Jarvis Field forms a pretext for inserting three pages of base-ball records, in the course of which the implication is made that the game of July 24, 1868, which Harvard won over Yale, was the first contest of the sort between the two colleges. As a matter of fact, the Yale nine of '69 had before that date twice defeated the corresponding class-nine of Harvard; once as Freshmen in 1866 and once as Sophomores in 1867." The carelessness with which...