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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...building, to be called Hamilton court, in honor of Alexander Hamilton, will stand between 120th and 121st Sts. It will be nine stories high, and will cover a plot of ground 200 feet square. Each floor has been designed to accommodate 100 students. The rooms are either single or divided into suites, and will be furnished by the university...
...Running High Jump-6 in. limit.F. Holt '99, J. D. Dole '99, W. G. Morse '99, A. G. Mason 1900, C. J. Paine...
...polo team yesterday defeated the Cambridge High and Latin School team in a practice game by the score of 3 to 2. This afternoon the team will play a short game with the Cambridge Athletic Club team...
...exercises were much the same as they are today. To be sure, the height of the flowers was gradually increased, but to judge from a picture in a weekly journal of 1870 (which may be seen at the Library), the wreath was already at this time fully as high as it is today; for the Seniors are represented as holding up their comrades who still are unable to reach the flowers...
...ground for the objection that the scrimmage has become, to use the extreme language of the communication, a "fight in which to pay off old scores instead of a good-natured scramble." Whatever trouble there may have been in past years has been caused by placing the flowers so high that it was necessary for groups of men to combine and struggle with other combinations in order to get them. If, as the Class Day Committee has suggested, the flowers were lowered so that they would be barely beyond one's reach when standing, there would be no need...