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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...secretary of the Tennis Association will be in his room, 32 Thayer, from 9 to 10 today. This is the last day that the reduced rates for the past marking of courts...
...trouble with the Harvard nines for the past three years," says the Cambridge correspondent of the Athlete, "has been that there have been too few candidates to pick from. Although these have been good players, there has not been nearly so much personal interest in the nine as there otherwise would have been, and the men have not been driven by competition to do their best at all times...
...hope the success of the lacrosse team in the past will be rewarded by a large audience at the game today with Princeton. The team, although weakened by the loss of several strong players whose places had to be filled by comparatively new men, easily beat the New York University Lacrosse Club last week. The Princeton Club has the reputation of being one of the strongest clubs in the association and will undoubtedly play a strong game, forcing our men to do their utmost to win. Our team have also greatly improved since their last game, and an exciting...
...whatever has been accomplished by even the highest seat of learning in this country, there is as yet no institution that comes anywhere near our ideal of what a university, in the proper sense of the word, ought to be. We have made great, very great progress during the past twenty-five years, but we have nothing like the great universities of Vienna, Leipsic, Berlin, or even Strasburg, not to speak of Oxford and Cambridge, in England. Ezra Cornell, himself not a liberally educated man, gave one of the best definitions of a university when he said that he would...
...insure the success of the meeting. Entries must be in before May 13. It is to be hoped that the attendance at the races will be large enough to insure their continuance. Bicycling has always been a popular sport at Harvard, but interest in it has dwindled during the past year. It will be a matter for congratulation if the coming races shall revive the old-time interest and make bicycle races a permanent institution...