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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bereavement has the sympathies of the students of the Law School, in which he was a member of the third year class. Young Mr. Allen is himself likely to have a career no less brilliant than was his father's, if ability, scholarly attainments and a pleasing address obtain their due. In college he took a high stand in his class, and found much time beside to devote to athletics, having been proficient not only in several different sports, but also having filled in an admirable manner the position of coxswain in the famous '77-'79 'varsity crews. During...
...whose nine has suffered defeat at the hands of Dartmouth in four out of the six contests in which the two have been engaged. It is doubtless true that Dartmouth will make no violent opposition to the proposition, choosing rather to submit quietly to a manifest injustice than to obtain the unenviable reputation of obstinacy and grumbling. It is certainly true that should the division be attempted she will decline to enter the smaller league, and content herself with playing such individual games as may be arranged, in which success is by no means doubtful, owing to the strong material...
...their opponents', and one in New York, it is highly probable that base-ball at Yale at least would be made self-supporting. This is the true ground of objecting to games with Dartmouth and Amherst. Without them we can have better and more interesting games, and can obtain them at greatly reduced expense. There is a strong tendency at present to curtail college expenditures for athletics, and this seems a good plan to assist it. It is no argument at all to say that the mere fact that a nine fails to win victories is a reason for excluding...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Last year some gentlemen connected with the senior class canvassed the college to obtain subscriptions for a Christmas present to Billy the postman. This year I believe no such step has been taken, and unless the members of the college individually remember him, there is danger that he will not receive the substantial recognition that his faithfulness and courtesy entitle him to. His position, as we all know, is a laborious one, and attended with many unpleasant features. Let us all do what we can to reward this by giving him some little reminder of our appreciation...
...length of time he will be away. To members of the society not going to or passing through N. Y. there will be allowed, on presentation of membership ticket at Sheldon's ticket office, 276 Washington street, Boston, a discount from the regular fare nominally greater than others can obtain. Each member will be able to purchase as many tickets as he desires, and non-members can secure from the undersigned the same advantage. The reduction from the regular fares to several important points is as follows: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis (without change), and Cincinnati (on a rebate), $2.00; Decatur...