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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Brown University Freshmen played with the new Fall River Amateur Nine on Fast Day. The score was 8 to 3, in favor of the Freshmen...
LAST Saturday Captain Bancroft went on to New London with Mr. Weld, and selected quarters for the crew, and, although they are not as satisfactory as those of last year, yet they do very well. The house that he chose is pleasantly situated on the left bank of the river, near the head of the course, and has in front of it a little cove that is protected from the wind and makes a very good place for the boat-house. The principal objection to the house is the lack of shade-trees. This disadvantage may be obviated by setting...
...placing of this window in the Dining Hall was merely an experiment, and as the window did not meet the hopes of the graduates who intended to give it to the University, as regards either its artistic worth or its usefulness, it was sent back to the makers in New York...
Whose list new conquests daily swell...
...readers of the Crimson may be interested in two sonnets on the seal of Harvard College, by Dr. Holmes, which were read at the Harvard Club dinner in New York. In an explanatory note, Dr. Holmes tells us that the original seal of the College was "a shield, with three open books, bearing the word Veritas." This motto was afterwards changed, probably during the presidency of Increase Mather, a strong Congregationalist, to "Christo et Ecclesiae." The object of the sonnets is best shown by their author's own remarks...