Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Students wishing to take lessons in boxing would do well to consult Billy Frazer, the Light-weight champion of America. Orders left at Brine's, sporting outfitter, 10 and 11 Harvard...
...recent article in one of the leading weeklies throws light on a side of German student-life, which is not often touched upon in the frequent accounts of the manners and customs of our Teutonic fellow-laborers in the large universities. Reference is made to the great prevalence of poverty among the students, and the increase of pauperism under the fostering care of immense charitable organizations...
...bosom glistened with the starch of Brines' Troy Laundry, knickerbockers of the most approved Oscar Wilde pattern, and in his hand carried a crush hat. The two sides were distinguished by a bit of ribbon in the button-hole of each man; the Yale men as of old, wore light blue; the Harvard men, pale pink, crimson having been discarded long before as being too loud. The ball used was perfectly round, about half the size of a Rugby, and covered with velvet of delicate tint...
...adjusted, the game continued. Soon the velvety sphere was in the possession of a wearer of the pink. As he ran down the field, the ease of his motion, the exquisite mould of his features, and the god like brilliancy of his diamond shirt stud glistening in the sun-light, drew forth long and continued applause. A touch-down was made, but, out of courtesty to Yale, who had not yet scored, no attempt was made for a goal. An intermission of half an hour followed, during which the contestants indulged in ice cream and ladies' fingers; ten minutes more...
...article in the Princetonian of Wednesday throws a new light on the Yale-Princeton trouble. It seems that at the Inter-collegiate Convention of Oct. 10th no date or place for playing the game was voted upon, and that Princeton said they could do nothing till after a vote of their Board of Trustees. The next morning, however, to quote the Princetonian, "the Yale News and the morning papers in New York had in their reports of the Foot-ball Convention, Princeton vs. Yale on Nov. 21, in New Haven, or on Nov. 26, in New York. This was without...