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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...players and with very little practice in the McGill game, owing to the preparation for the Graduate match, we won a victory over the Canadians. Yale may object on the score that Harvard has already become well acquainted with the game. Very true, but Yale can practise and learn it during the fall. It is a game very easy and simple to learn, requiring, at the utmost, two weeks' practice for a club to be able to play it skilfully. I trust, then, that Yale will approve of the plan, and that in 1875 we can have a match between...
Vassar Miscellany.FROM the Courant we learn that "the sublimest apocalypse of God, the most overwhelming argument for the existence of an Architect of this golden cathedral of the universe, - a Being of unfathomable attributes of love and perfect goodness, - that has probably been made by soul to soul," has just been delivered at New Haven. Immortalized Yale! But why don't they print it and send it round...
...seems that a chess-club might be maintained by the students to advantage. A large number of men have some knowledge of this game of games, and would probably join such a club if started, and find it convenient to play one evening a week at least. We learn from our exchanges that several chess-clubs have been formed in other Colleges this year, and it is high time for Harvard to be represented. Last year our College was challenged to play a series of games, when of course all that could be done was to decline. Let us hope...
...foundation to rest upon. With large sections, the instructor is obliged often to lecture, and treat the students as men of honor who will do their share of the work, and derive additional benefit from his remarks to them. Thus men who come poorly fitted, but eager to learn, appreciate and derive greatest advantage, while those who may fancy the remarks as "too critical," "too old," gradually lose what they do know, and learn nothing...
...descriptions, from the stately landau to the sluggish lumber-cart, were impressed into the service, drawn by the report of rich plunder, from the country within a radius of fifty miles. The price for transportation to the lake immediately dropped from five dollars to fifty cents. We learn on good authority that, should Saratoga be fixed upon for the next regatta, a long-contemplated plan for quick and cheap carriage to the lake will be carried into effect. This would remove every objection to Saratoga but one, that of the delay caused by rough water; and this, it is held...