Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hare and Hounds run will start from in front of Matthews at 3.10 P. M. to-day, sharp. All who intend to take part must sign at Bartlett's, before...
...FACULTY OF HARVARD COLLEGE, GENTLEMEN :-On the 22 of Nov., 1883, the Committee on Athletics, believing that the game of foot ball had begun to degenerate into a brutal and dangerous contest, informed the Captain of the Harvard eleven that the team could not be allowed to take part in any further inter-collegiate match games until substantial changes in the rules had been made. According to the rules then existing, a player could back, throttle, butt, trip up, tackle below the hips. or strike an opponent with closed fist three times before he was sent from the field...
...games, those in which the Harvard team took part, were very one-sided contests. In the Yale Princeton and Wesleyan-Pennsylvania games the opposing teams were very evenly matched. Of the four games the Yale Harvard game was the least objectionable, and the Westeyan-Pennsylvania was the worst...
...discussed by others, the question of the justice, right or expediency of the recent action of the Athletic Committee in dismissing Col. Bancroft from the position of coach of the crews, I wish to call attention to what seems to me to be strange inconsistency on the part of the Committee. Last year, when the question of having a paid director of field athletic sports was under discussion, the Athletic Committee of the Faculty announced, as I understand the matter, that if only a man like Col. Bancroft could be found to take charge of our field athletics, the faculty...
...lighting of the library. While we do not feel called upon to enter into a consideration of the manner or method of accomplishing the long awaited improvement, we cannot see any other means of attaining success in the matter than by unanimous and determined action upon the part of the students. The approaching winter, with its promise of virtually opening the doors of Gore Hall, while the students are otherwise engaged, and of closing them before the students are disengaged, is well calculated to prove a dreary season, in more than one respect. It does not seem possible that...