Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...being done by attending the practising as well as the games of the team as often as possible. But while this is in every way desirable men must be more careful about walking around, not across the new ground on Holmes. The ground has been planted with grass seed, part of which is expected to grow before winter, but if scores of men are to tramp over the place daily, our prospect of having next year a well turfed, level field for base ball will be poor indeed...
...first meet of the season. Under captain Smith the club started at about two and rode through Watertown and Waltham to Auburndale, Newton and Brighton, reaching Harvard Square after a pleasant run of about twenty-two miles, at five o'clock. This run was well attended, more riders taking part than have attended any meet of the last few years. This week the club proposes to hold a Hare and Hounds run, encouraged by the successes of last year in these runs...
...past few days, there have been rumors floating about of the intention on the part of the freshman class to attend some Boston theatre in a body. To any freshman who contemplates any such action, we can only say that he should be fully aware of the fact that the college has more than once shown its emphatic disapproval of any such expeditions. We had thought that this silly custom had died out with the flasco of last year, and wish to warn '87 against beginning its college career with its revival, Harvard is gradually reaching a point from which...
...greatest of the early colonial writers are Increase and Cotton Mather, father and son. They were able and so far beyond the learned men of New England of the day that Prof. Coit Tyler devotes a chapter to "The Dynasty of the Mathers." To be a scholar was part of the family inheritance." Of Increase Mather, the first native American who was president of Harvard College, Prof. Tyler says :-"By the great force of his learning, his logic, his sense, his eloquence, his sagacity and audacity in partilsan command, he became, during the first thirty years of that time...
...club this afternoon at half past one, in front of University. The run will be through Waltham and Watertown, returning through Newton and Brighton, reeching cambridge before five o'clock. As this is the first run of the year. it is hope a large number will take part...