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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wilson, treasurer during the past year, then read a statement of his account. The full report will be published in the CRIMSON of Saturday...
...better fall sport has ever been desired than foot-ball, and its abandonment by the college cannot fail to be taken as an indication of the wane of that spirit of pluck and hardihood which has characterized the Harvard undergraduate of the past...
...past year, the Polo Club has had a quiet and uneventful career, serving no purpose, apparently save that of affording amusement to its own members, and furnishing the college press with an occasional paragraph. Last year, it is true, the announcement that the Yale Polo Club was on the point of sending a challenge to Cambridge caused some attention to be directed to our own organization, yet the interest was changed to amusement when it was found that Yale purposed to mount her team on roller skates. This year, however, the polo players have done something really worthy of note...
James Russell Lowell presented to the library last June on his arrival from abroad, a valuable collection of books which he had gathered while in Europe in the past eight years. This collection embraced 688 volumes. They are mostly Spanish works, some are Italian, and a few are English. While many of these volumes are very valuable and rare, there is one work that may justly be deemed a prize above all others. This is the Chronicle of Fernando Lopez, in three volumes printed in 1644. Mr. Lowell purchased it at the Sunderland sale in 1882. On the fly leaf...
...been customary in years past for many students who have made no definite arrangements for board to take their meals at Memorial until some other place is found. Consequently at the beginning of every year the hall is crowded by a number of merely transient boarders, while a large number of men who otherwise would remain permanently at the hall are unable to secure seats. The board of directors have endeavored, in a measure, to obviate this difficulty by requiring two weeks notice for withdrawal and granting no allowance for temporary absence until the first of November. Students should remember...