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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...past few years, bicycling at Harvard has been on the decline, and consequently an idea is prevalent that the club is dead. This is far from being the case. The first meeting of the club disproved any such idea. Nevertheless, the list of active members is none too large. While urging every man in college who has a wheel to join, we must depend mainly upon the class of '90 for an increasing membership. According to the present plans of the club, there will be, on an average, two runs a week (weather permitting) for the rest of the season...
...undergraduates of the University were seated, and thence to the extreme right extended row above row, and class after class of Alumni, embracing every period of life, from the youth fresh from the studious hall, to the octogenarian, who seemed to live again in the memories of the distant past. When all were seated, a prayer was offered by the Rev. President Humphrey of Amherst College. For a time the dining quietly proceeded; but soon the busy hum of many voices, the laugh, the joke, animated the scene. All were again hushed, as if by magic, when Mr. Edward Everett...
...fall athletics is the annual series of hare and hound runs. The present weather is in every respect so well suited for a successful run that it is a matter of surprise that one has not already been arranged. Every day of such weather should be utilized. In past years the runs have been invariable successful, and an extra effort should be made to bring the sport before the new students, for the exercise is adapted to develop staying powers as well as fleetness of foot. While the exertion of a quick run is often too severe for the ordinary...
...undergraduates of the University were seated, and thence to the extreme right extended row above row, and class after class, of Alumni, embracing every period of life, from the youth fresh from the studious hall, to the octogenarian, who seemed to live again in the memories of the distant past. When all were seated, a prayer was offered by the Rev. President Humphrey, of Amherst College. For a time the dining quietly proceeded; but soon the busy hum of many voices, the laugh, the joke, animated the scene. All were again hushed, as if by magic, when Mr. Everett...
...Latin School two years before graduation and entered business. But his desire to pursue a college course was so strong that be devoted his leisure hours to study and entered college with his old class-mates last year as a special student. His excellent work during the past year would undoubtedly have admitted him as a member of good standing of the sophomore class, but about the middle of last June he was stricken down with pulmonary disease, from which he died six weeks later...