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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Williams team played a good game but showed their lack of practice in games, this being their first. A very noticeable feature of their playing was that they were afraid to kick the ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 10/20/1887 | See Source »

...first number of the Advocate, which appeared on Saturday, was unusually interesting. It showed a determination to awake, if possible, the sleeping energies of this college; to make Harvard represented in athletic contests, and no longer maintain a position which must indicate a lack of thoroughness and intensity in all the work here. If we fail in athletics we should fail also in our literary enterprise, unless they happen to reach beyond the pale of college opinion. Is not the law of compensation less powerful here than elsewhere? Cannot this be the reason why there is less performance? There...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/17/1887 | See Source »

...good idea if the captain of the Mott Haven team would take the matter in hand as did his predecessor last year, issue a notice of when and where the first run would be held and I am sure that he would have no cause to complain of lack of support. Last year there were always twenty or thirty fellows who started off after the hares and there is no reason why the exercise should not be just as popular this fall as it ever was. Next to foot-ball, Hare and Hounds is the most invigorating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 10/15/1887 | See Source »

...Lack of space prevents our noticing further a careful study of "Austin Dobson and His Verse" and some well-written editorials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Monthly. | 10/13/1887 | See Source »

Last evening the annual meeting of the Lawn Tennis Association was held in Holden Chapel before a moderately large attendance. In the absence of President H. Kuhn, '87, Mr. Paine, '88, called the meeting to order. The treasurer's report was then read but owing to lack of space it cannot be published till to-morrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Association. | 10/7/1887 | See Source »

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