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...wealthier students, who can afford to subscribe to the maintenance of athletics. This for sooth brings about a spirit of democracy! Harvard democracy we had better call it. The seventh resolution caps the climax. Our patience has already been sorely tried, but the faculty have carefully kept the heaviest blow for the last. Our dear friend Columbia, with whom our experiences have been so pleasant, had to be propitiated, and this is the result embodied in few and choice words of the purest English style...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ATHLETIC QUESTION. | 2/22/1884 | See Source »

...piles of books from the library. This gives us a new insight into the character of the Harvard man. We always knew he was a poller. But this activity is alarming. It at least suggests another argument in favor of college athletics. The most muscular man can carry the heaviest burden of books. [Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/4/1884 | See Source »

...Princeton, and its prospects for retaining the championship are excellent. New material, however, has been more lacking than at either of the revile colleges. Of last year's rushers, Tompkins, Peters, Farewell and Hyndman are now playing. A large gap is caused by the absence of Hull, the heaviest rusher, and Knapp, the end rusher. Twombly, the active quarter-back of last season, is again at his post and plays a fine game. Terry is a power at half-back, with his tremendous punts. In case Richards is unable to play half-back, Robinson, '85, will take his place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 11/14/1883 | See Source »

...middle of the winter, Bean, from whom much was expected as a pitcher, and who was one of our heaviest batters, was obliged to leave college. The nine, in spite of these set-backs, worked manfully all through the winter, and was just getting ready to begin the championship contest when Winslow, who had begun to show evidence of extraordinary ability as a pitcher, was taken ill and was obliged to stop play. The pitching, consequently, devolved on Nichols and Allen, who have each done remarkably well, in spite of the disadvantageous circumstances under which they undertook the task. Still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY NINE. | 6/22/1883 | See Source »

Weight - Aggregate, 1,047 1/2 lbs.; average, 116 1/3 lbs.; heaviest, 140 lbs.; lightest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/13/1883 | See Source »

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