Word: locals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weekly meeting. The programme was as follows: Music, declamation, select readings, essays, and an oration. In the midst of this earnest work the social side of the society was not neglected. Five or six times during the year private theatriricals were given, and the Athenaeum farces gained a great local reputation. It is recorded that on one night, an invitation having been extended to the Institute, that society came in a body and enthusiastically applauded the play...
...college societies in Trinity differ greatly from those of Harvard. There are four fraternities represented by chapters- the Psi Upsilon, the Alpha Delta Phi, the Delta Psi, and the Delta Kappa Epsilon. There is also a local society called the I. K. A. All these are secret, and three have club houses near the college. That of the Delta Psi is very beautiful, being built of granite and having a graceful stone tower...
HARVARD VS. SOUTH WORCESTER.The cricket eleven visited South Worcester on Saturday and won a brilliant victory from the local team. Steady bowling and equally steady fielding were the main causes of the small score, twenty-eight, made by the South Worcester, Thomas' steady innings of 14 being the only one worthy of mention. Brown and Frost, who began the innings for Harvard, passed the total of their opponents before they were separated, and the remainder of the team pulled up the score to the creditable total of 65. Below is the score...
...proposal for a model system of taxation for the United States, national and local...
...meet the curving ball is more difficult than the play to meet the, varying pitch and break of well-bowled balls at cricket. In base-ball curves there is no room for chance to come in; at least we may neglect such slight differences as may arise from local peculiarities of atmospheric density. It would be perhaps worth inquiring how far the effectiveness of a pitcher's curving would be affected by the barometric pressure. Imagine the captain of a base-ball team warning the nine before play began that they must allow a little more than usual...