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...that the almost traditional trips to Canada by our university foot-ball teams will probably be discontinued, a few facts concerning past contests with our old rivals may prove interesting. In the fall of 1874 Harvard sent ten men, representing her foot-ball interests, to Montreal, in response to a challenge from McGill College of that city. One of our men was disabled before the match, so McGill kindly consented to play with nine men. The contest lasted three half hours and resulted in a victory for Harvard, with a score of three touchdowns to nothing. In the fall...
From time to time during the past half dozen years the introduction of the game of cricket into our colleges has been under discussion. At first the subject was looked upon as a problem, but there stood ready in several of our largest universities those who proposed to crack the nut. In Philadelphia the leading clubs took the matter in hand and did much to encourage the proposition. At last, about three years ago, the Intercollegiate Cricket Association was organized, and the initial meeting, which was held in New York, was attended by representatives from Harvard, Trinity of Hartford, Princeton...
...confined to Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. At Harvard some years ago some energetic cricketers collected subscriptions enough to lay out a little piece of turf, some twenty or thirty yards, in a part of Holmes field, and this is our ground at the present moment. During the past two years several college matches and matches with the neighboring clubs have been played, but the interest in the college seems to have been gradually failing. Last autumn we thought we would see if something could not be done to give the cricket interest a boom. Notices of various kinds...
...permanence and future usefulness depend largely upon the careful selection of a competent board of officers for the ensuing year. The actual success of the society, however, depends more directly upon the energy and efficiency of the superintendent. It is difficult to appreciate to what a great extent the past year's success has been due to the painstaking and thorough management of the present incumbent. Therefore it is with considerable concern that we learn that the present superintendent contemplates giving up the office. His reasons for this step are entirely personal. As so much of the success...
...Vassall Club will give an entertainment in Lyceum Hall tonight for the benefit of charities. The programme will consist of "The Loan of a Lover," "The Artist's Dream" and "Poor Pillicoddy." Admission, $1. The plays have been in rehearsal for some time past, and have already been performed with great success several times before the members of the club...