Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...results of the three important matches played last Saturday. In two of them we gained decisive victories. The third, though not resulting in a victory for Harvard, yet could not be scored as a success for our rival, while, if we accept the testimony of the Globe and Herald, it should have been placed to the credit of our freshmen, since the faulty decisions of the umpire helped the freshman team from New Haven to add five runs to its score. But though we cannot lay claim to a point gained in the contest for the freshman championship...
...Amherst freshmen complain loudly of the treatment they received in New Haven. The Yale boys made an unenviable reputation for roughness last year, but isn't it rather early for a repetition?- Boston Herald...
...Sunday Herald said, "If the Harvards bat in championship games as they did Saturday, the result of the season will not be in doubt...
...Boston Herald says that the Brown University four is rowing 18,000 strokes daily on the machines. At thirty strokes a minute this would make ten hours steady work per day. Can it be that Brown has adopted President Eliot's "University" plan, and is turning out one-sided specialists instead of men with a liberal education? The newspaper which says that specialization is "crumbling the walls of scholastic learning" at Harvard, should look into this affair at Brown...
...article on the field sports of the present day, the Boston Herald takes occasion to mention lacrosse in the following terms: "In New England, lacrosse has just about held its own, but in the West clubs are rapidly springing up, and there are more clubs there now than in Canada. The interest in this city was greatly stimulated last season by the formation of a New England league, and this season will find four clubs, Cambridge, Somerville, Harvard University and Boston, playing a good strong game. Any one of these ought to be able to hold any club...