Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is an attempt to get up a team of St. Paul's graduates in college to play the St. Paul hockey team at Concord after the mid-years...
...clear, cold weather which has now come upon us prompts us to inquire about the late Harvard Hockey Club. This organization was started, last year, under very promising auspices, and for a short time it lead a humble but useful career. By placing bulletins upon University, announcing the existence of good ice on Fresh Pond or Glacialis, the club rendered service to the students. We venture to make the suggestion that the club again perform this duty...
...when the omnipresent pest makes itself at home upon our tennis courts and deliberately engages in an offensive scrub game of ball. The college grounds at all hours of the day are the play-ground of youths who find no better enjoyment than in foul language and in playing hockey, polo they call it, upon the effeminate grass. The only active pump in the yard is their headquarters, and the thirsty student is often compelled to await his turn until the individual members of the detail of muckerism which happens to have precedence over him have sufficiently amused themselves...
...Hockey Club has been to Fresh Pond several times...
Inquiries are now being anxiously made as to the sudden disappearance of the Hockey Club, the youngest of our institutions. We were promised, at the birth of this association, that all signs of activity would be dispensed with for the present; but with the advent of cold weather and good skating, we were told, the signs of activity would be numerous and frequent. The cold weather has come and with it the long expected skating, but a careful and diligent search has failed to reveal to us any signs that such a society as the Hockey Club has an existence...