Word: mottes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...candidates for the Mott Haven team are training just at present for the indoor games of the Boston Athletic Association, to be given February 10 in the Mechanics' Building. The chief interest centers in the team race with the University of Pennsylvania. Harvard's team has not been chosen as yet. There will be no decision until shortly before the race, as there are eight or nine men who are eligible. The largest number of entries will be in the forty yards novice and the forty yards handicap, with several in the 600 yards and 1000 yards runs. Last year...
...have tried the tests pronounce the few minutes which they take as well spent. Mr. Lathrop has announced to the candidates for the Mott Haven Team the fact that such tests are being made, and it is expected that a large number will present themselves. If some 25 more are experimented upon within a few days, the result will be published as a matter of interesting information. The hours are 2.30 to 4.30, excepting Saturdays. The experiments are in no way exacting or tiresome, but on the contrary, are in themselves a recreation...
...Pennsylvanian, however, which looks with favor on such a league, and which thinks its formation probable, says in its issue of January 5th: "The games would be held in Philadelphia, probably on the University grounds, probably one or two weeks before the Mott Haven games. As Pennsylvania stood third, ahead of Princeton last year, it is probable that Princeton will be more ready to join such a league...
Torrence Parker, with mild sarcasm, rather cleverly defends the much-abused "Chirography of the Harvard Instructors in English;" but the remaining articles of the number will probably prove more interesting to most of the students. Best of them is "Mr. Thaddeus Almanac's Scientific Proposal," by L. W. Mott and L. How. The hero's unfortunate experiment with a phonograph in connection with a matrimonial proposal, is very entertaining. Somewhat less so, though still good, is C. G. Christian's "Ambition Lowly Laid." "On Beacon Hill," by A. C. Train is, as its author calls it, a sketch...
...announced yesterday and today in another column of the CRIMSON, all candidates for the Mott Haven team are earnestly requested to meet Captain Wheelwright in the Trophy Rroom this afternoon at 4.30. The following facts in connection with this meeting should be borne in mind by all men in the University who have any ability as athletes. In the first place as many men and more men is possible than were present at a similar meeting last year should present themselves as candidates. It is very important that Mr. Lathrop and the Captain should know from the very beginning...