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...Brown at Providence; 19, Amherst at New Haven; 22, Orange at Orange; 26, Lehigh at New Haven; 29, Brown at Providence; June 2, Holy Cross at Springfield; 5, Princeton at New Haven; 9, University of Vermont at New Haven; 12, Princeton at Princeton; 19, Princeton at New York; 24, Havard at Cambridge; 29, Harvard at New Haven...
...Havard is old, successful and up-to-date in her methods; these three characteristics explain her pre-eminence. That is the case with the New York Life among life insurance companies. It was organized in 1845, just as the steady growth of life insurance began in this country; its financial standing on January 1, 1896, was as follows: Assets, $174,791,990.54; habilities, $150,753,312.65; surplus, $24,038,677.89; and its "Accumulation Policy" is the most liberal policy contract issued by any company The latter statement is no mere rhetorical boast, as may be seen by a comparison...
...captains held a short consultation and then the two teams started to take their positions for the kick-off. Havard had won the toss and chose the western goal with the sun and a slight wind at their backs...
...sport to the life of the college, it should be warmly welcomed. At present we have such an influence alive, working through the class championship games, especially in base ball. The howling crowds on Jarvis, the miscellaneous music, and the cannon too, all play an important part in keeping Havard from being a place where the life of the college is all shut up in recitation halls and reading rooms, and in bringing out and keeping alive something which can perhaps best be described as college life. In this way the class games are a wholesome feature of Harvard life...
...good many people, puzzled to see the statue of John Harvard the inscription "Founder, 1638," have asked that the matter be explained. It has always been known that Harvard was founded in 1636, and that it was John Havard who endowed the money and gave the college its name The facts are that in 1636 the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts voted a sum of money towards the founding of a school or college. In 1638 John Harvard died and left half of his property to the school which had been founded two years before...