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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There will be a class meeting of '86 this evening, at half-past seven o'clock, in Boylston Hall...
During the past few years several disagreeable controversies have arisen and much ill-feeling has been occasioned by the manner in which intercollegiate contests have been conducted. Students in their conventions represent no one but themselves, and often act without responsibility and authority, committing their fellow-students to a questionable policy and establishing precedents which are detrimental to the interests of college sports. Therefore...
...practice of playing match games in large cities for the sake of gate money has crept into college sports within the past few years. The evils resulting are many: it leads to the introduction of features which draw crowds, independently of the merit of the game and the spirit of fair play; it induces men to put themselves in the hands of speculators; it cultivates a passion for excitement in players and spectators which make ordinary games seem tame, thus depriving the great majority of college students of a motive for physical exertion. Therefore...
...trouble has been caused by the failure of members to ask for ordered goods when paying for something which they had ordered. If books or other articles be sold to them from the general stock while their ordered goods are reserved for them till the time of sale is past, the society loses...
There will be a meeting of all past members of the Harvard Cricket team at 7.30 this evening in 9 Holworthy. There will be important business and a full attendance is requested...