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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Holden gets the ball and makes the third touchdown. No goal. The Harvard backs continue to muff, and Exeter drives the Harvard team to the 25-yard line. After a series of rushes by Exeter, the ball comes within three feet of the Harvard, and it looks very much like a touchdown for Exeter, but on the fourth down the ball is given to Harvard and Saxe kicks it into the field. A few minutes later the game is delayed, as Morrison, Exeter's half-back and brother to Yale's half-back is slightly injured and Van Inwagan takes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 10/13/1887 | See Source »

...knows this is the whole secret, perfect organization and nothing else. 1t is not phenomenal strength nor subtle trickery. It is careful attention to details, and until Harvard rowing undergraduates see to it that they place themselyes under the operation of the same thorough working plan and accept business like organization, defeat will come every year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/13/1887 | See Source »

...life. If a man turns his back on Christ he simply sees his own shadow and is in darkness; but if he follows Christ be faces the light, and all is clear. When a man comes to college he is a student, but a poor one at first; in like manner, when a man follows Christ he becomes a Christian, even though a poor one. To do what is right, to think what is right, is a life worth living. Any man can begin that life to-morrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Drummond's Lecture. | 10/11/1887 | See Source »

Entrance on Christianity is like the beginning of a friendship. The life of Christ's followers is the eternal life; it is following a person, not a thing, and it opens up to a man the only possibilities of the entire development of what is in him. A man may know a great deal about Christianity without knowing anything of Christ. Such men are religious men, but not Christians-they live for themselves, instead of living for Christ. No man is a Christian who lives for himself. There is a practical difficulty in being beset by temptation; but there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Drummond's Lecture. | 10/11/1887 | See Source »

...then moved that the chair appoint a committee of three to take appropriate action on the recent death of J. W. T. Leonard. The chair said he would like to meet those of Mr. Leonard's friends who wished to serve, after adjournment. The meeting then adjourned at 8 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The '90 Class Meeting. | 10/11/1887 | See Source »

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