Word: holding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Later, last evening, it was decided by the captains of the eight-oared race to declare their match off and hold another race over the same course next Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. The members of the Shawmut crew will receive individual prizes for winning yesterday's race, but the winners of Wednesday's race will receive the championship pennant...
...acceptance, silently acquiesce. It would be the more ungracious of her, since she did not in the games this year prove herself second best. Oxford and Cambridge, in replying to the intercollegiate challenge by a narrowed counter challenge, should, it would seem, have selected Yale and Pennsylvania, who hold the two leading places in track athletics. There certainly seems no adequate reason why a meeting like the one originally proposed by the American colleges should not have been arranged; but, as matters now stand, it is hard to see just how Harvard can fairly be one of two colleges...
...meeting of the Harvard Lacrosse Association held Saturday evening, plans to bring about an increase in the interest in lacrosse among the students were discussed. It was decided to hold in the fall a competition in throwing and catching, something like the spring competition of the football candidates. Prizes will be given to those who make the most points. A second team will be organized to play the second elevens of the Boston, Beachmont and other lacrosse Associations. From this team and from the players who make the best showing in the fall competition the 'varsity lacrosse team will...
...Yale Law School will hold its annual commencement June 24. Hon. H. B. Brown, LL.D., Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, will deliver an address to the graduating class...
...American School of Applied Ethics will hold its fourth annual summer meeting in Plymouth, Mass., beginning July 7 and continuing until Saturday, August 9, a period of five weeks. The school, which comprises the following departments, Economics, Ethics, Education and History of Religions, will this year be under the charge of Professor H. C. Adams of the University of Michigan, Dr. Felix Adler of New York, and Prof. C. H. Toy of Harvard University, and everything seems to point to a most successful session. Some of the most distinguished lecturers in the United States will be present, among whom...