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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were played off yesterday afternoon. Tallant won 6-4, 6-1, 5-7, 6-1, thus winning the championship of the college. The game was won by Tallant's good returns of Lee's lobbing. Lee played on the back line and lobbed into Tallant's hands continually. This kind of play gave Tallant many chances to keep Lee running across the courts, and Lee showed great skill in recovering himself. In starting Tallant took service, but as there was some wind and a strong sunlight they changed courts after each game. Both players were a little careless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finals in Tennis. | 10/19/1889 | See Source »

Will the man who took my hat from a table in the library Saturday morning be kind enough to return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 10/14/1889 | See Source »

DEAR SIRS.- We trust that you may kindly grant us space to call attention to the project of the Archeacological Institute, to buy and excavate the site of the Delphic oracle and temple. There is no other work of the kind remaining to be done in Greek lands, at all comparable with this in importance and interest. Like the Attis at Olympia and the Acropolis of Athens, the Delphic temenos was an art museum of a national character. How many of the three thousand statues to be seen there in Pliny's time still lie buried beneath the cottages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 10/12/1889 | See Source »

...with a time honored custom the annual rush between sophomores and freshmen will be made this evening. An institution as old as "Bloody Monday Night" has certainly much to commend it, much to assure its continuation on a firm basis. It is undoubtedly desirable that some demonstrations of this kind should be made during a college course. They add both zest and tone to student life so long as they are kept within proper bounds and not characterized by disgusting abuses, but with them unfortunately these abuses are apt to come. Yearly, to be sure, they grow less and less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/30/1889 | See Source »

...your work is not desired. While the captain does his utmost he cannot of course seek every man in person, and yet you who have been inadvertently passed by are perhaps the very ones who by earnest work may bring victory to Harvard, Surely in a case of this kind all reticence and self-distrust should be forgotten for the general good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/28/1889 | See Source »

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