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...work to be done later. The Westchester Polo Club had offered a set of cups to be played for by the clubs of America, and Captain Belmont had been training his men for the express purpose of winning these cups if possible. The entries for the contest included the Meadow Brooks team, the Westchester team, and the Harvard players. The first game brought Harvard face to face with the Westchester team. The sides were made up as follows: Harvard - R. R. Belmont (captain), A. T. French, O. W. Bird, and E. L. Winthrop. Westchester - C. O. Irelin (captain), W. Ruthesford...
...following are the dimensions of the new athletic field at Yale: Area, hillside and meadow, 8.4 acres; cricket field, 3.67; track and vicinity, 4.68; baseball field, 10; roads and cottage sites, 2.25. Total area, 29 acres. Distance from home plate to nearest obstruction on principal ball field, 420ft.; same, second field, 350ft. Cricket field, 400ft. square. Grade of ball field, 3 1-4 in. to 100ft. Length of driveway, 4,000ft. Length straightaway on running track, 372.5ft.; radius inside curve, 90ft.; width of homestretch, 20ft.; width of rest of track, 15ft.; depth of material, 15in., in six layers...
...Buffalo Polo Club defeated the Meadow Brooks, the champions of Newport, on Friday, Oct. 5th, beating them three straight games. T. Cary '74 is one of the Buffalos, and A. Belmont '75 and E. D. Morgan '78 are members of the Meadow Brooks...
...south side of Mt. Auburn street, between Chauncy and Lowell streets, formerly known as Simond's Hill. The lot extends from Mt. Auburn street to the river, upon which it has a front of five hundred feet. Directly opposite, on the other side of the river, is the Cottage meadow, or park, of seventy acres, given some years ago to Harvard College by Professor Henry W. Longfellow and others. This is to be kept open forever as a pleasure ground, upon which no buildings other than those fitted for such a park can ever be erected...
...average undergraduate poem seems to me to possess any of the characteristics of so-called true poetry. The undergraduate poet rhapsodizes over a ditch bordered by hummocks of meadow-grass and clumps of scrubby, unsightly bushes; he goes into ecstasies over a frog-pond in a cow pasture; he personifies familiar objects; invests them with a glamour of brilliant colors, and imagines various noble fancies about them, or draws high lessons from their imagined actions or feelings, - what more does the true poet? In short, in criticising poetry it is hard to say just where sentiment leaves off, and sentimentalism...