Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...intercollegiate constitution provides that the champion athletic events shall occur the last Saturday in May. This year such a provision makes the date May 25, whereas the first Saturday in June comes upon the first of the month. It has been the custom for Yale and Harvard to hold their dual contest before all the colleges meet; such an arrangement followed out this year would bring them together upon the track...
Formerly he was considered a strong man who could hold the greatest amount of wine; wine was considered to be so healthy in its effects that it was very generally given to young children. Man then lived only to drink all he could all the time; the veteran soldiers and sailors of Wellington and Nelson are notorious for their drinking propensities and powers. In Berlin, at a meeting of famous naturalists and doctors, about four thousand in number, no less than fifteen thousand three hundred and eighty-two bottles of different kinds of wine were consumed, to say nothing...
...representatives chosen from the Williams and Dartmouth alumni and Mr. Lewis will hold a conference in Boston in the near future. If the protests of Amherst and Williams are judged valid by the board, Dartmouth will be deprived of the championship pennant, which she now claims from the traingular league...
...Harvard Engineering Society, a society open to all members of the University interested in engineering, aims to hold two meetings each month. One of them is generally addressed by some prominent engineer, and the other is for the discussion of engineering subjects by the students themselves...
...MANSFIELD, Sec.CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. Sailor Mission. The president of the Tea Wharf Association has offered us the Director's Hall to hold our mission meetings among the sailors. The names of the men who will go out on Sunday are posted on the bulletin in Holden Chapel. Regular meeting in Holden Chapel on Saturday, at 7 p. m. Any member of the University is cordially invited to go with us. We start every Sunday at 9 a. m., sharp, from Harvard Square...