Word: mer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...POWERS, Capt.ANDOVER CLUB.- The annual dinner of the Andover club will be held at the Boston Tavern Friday evening Nov, 8, at 7.30. Principal Bancroft and Professor Graves, of the Academy, and Professor Pa mer, of Harvard, will be the guests of the club. All Andover men in the University are invited to be present. It is hoped there will be a large attendance...
Yale will make a desperate effort to capture the all around championship cup in the Mott Haven games. It has never yet had that pleasure. In putting the shot and throwing the ham mer, in the broad jump, in the 100 yards, and in hurdle, the wearers of the blue and white will probably render a good account of themselves, but parental fears will probably nip their all-around championship aspirations in the bud. The parents of Brooks and Hamilton regard athletic training as just a trifle less dangerous than working a battery on Cemetery Hill, and the blue...
...closest ever rowed on the Charies river. At no time was there a foot of clear water between the boats; but first one boat, and then the other would be ahead. It recalls the race between '82 and '83 two years ago, in which the for mer crew won by about were prepared to witness the race from the pier of the railroad bridge, and in all kinds of conveyances. Many had gathered at the Union boat-house, mostly '84 men, who welcomed their crew with repeated cheers. Fast time was not to be expected, as the tide had been...