Word: holding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Exeter Club of Yale will hold a dinner early in February...
...Garden, N. Y., was, without doubt, in all respects the most successful athletic meeting ever held in this country. Representatives from all the well-known athletic clubs, together with numerous college athletes, took part in the games, and the large number of entries-about 700-made it necessary to hold the preliminary heats in the afternoon from two to six, and the finals from eight till near midnight. A few innovations were made, as lacrosse and base-ball games were played under cover for the first time. The H. A. A. did not send down any representatives. However...
...Chess and Whist Club will hold a whist tournament open to members of the club only after the mid-years...
...begin promptly at nine o'clock in the morning. Since compulsory prayers were abolished, however, the tendency has become marked among a large number of students to delay the commencement of the work of the day until long after nine. The habit of tardiness has taken a strong hold especially upon those who have lectures during the first hour and has proved such a source of annoyance to several of the professors as to cause them to adopt the practice of locking the doors of the lecture room at five minutes past nine...
About twenty-five men were present at the meeting of the St. Paul's Society last evening. Several important business matters were considered by the society, after which the president stated that the Church Students' Missionary Association had accepted the invitation of the society to hold its second annual convention in Cambridge next year. Rev. Percy Browne, of St. James Church, Roxbury, addressed the meeting in a few earnest words of exhortation for the purification of our souls. He showed the necessity of cultivating restraint against the many temptations which are attendant upon a college life; at the same time...