Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...post office department at Washington has decided that the names of the different Cambridge postal stations shall remain as formerly, without any alphabetical affix. This decision will undoubtedly be final so far as the old Cambridge name is concerned, but another appeal will be made to change the name of Cambridgeport...
After all, this formal renewal of friendship is an achievement which in time to come should mean more to Harvard and to Yale than victory or defeat. Harvard is glad to meet her old foes again, and glad that hereafter the meetings on the home grounds will render freer than before social and personal intercourse. Yale men and Harvard men, however their petty prejudices and superficial traits may differ, are nevertheless of the same stock. They are both more thoroughly cosmopolitan than men from other colleges. They come from all ranks of society, and from all sections of the country...
When it was decided definitely to transfer Harvard's athletic activity entirely to Soldiers Field the question came up as to what should be done with the old Carey Building on Holmes Field where the baseball cage was situated. It was decided that the Corporation should purchase it from the athletic authorities and convert it into quarters for the Architectural School...
...Corporation paid $15,000 for the old Carey Building and it was decided to devote the whole of this sum to the erection of a new cage on Soldiers Field. It was thought at the same time that Mr. Carey's name should continue in connection with Harvard athletics and accordingly the Athletic Committee petitioned the Corporation for permission to call the new cage the Carey Building. This was readily granted and it was decided to give the old Carey Building some other name agreeable to the Carey family. When the new cage is completed a tablet in memory...
...first week of this season's practice showed Yale's new material in good form. The two requisites for a 'varsity eleven-a heavy line and a set of strong fast backs-formed a team with admirable spirit and dash. Their great handicap was the absence of old 'varsity players in or behind the line. In the first game of the season with Trinity, which Yale won 10 to 0, the general impression was that Yale was playing a fast game and showing up better than at the same time last year. The second game, in which Wesleyan was defeated...