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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Board of Trustees to select a worthy successor to the responsible position which Dr. Barnard has been compelled, by ill-health, to vacate. As for the retiring president, he can desire no better reward than a retrospective glance at the ever-increasing prosperity of the college during the past twenty-five years-a prosperity which in great measure is due to his own careful supervision and activity...
...withdrawal was not accepted until the Doctor reiterated his intention, and then only with extreme reluctance. Dr. Hale's long connection with the University renders this step the more to be lamented, and it seems as if this were another tie severed which binds the Harvard of the past and present. The staff has been increased from four to five; in place of Dr. Hale the Rev. T. C. Williams of New York and the Rev. Professor William Lawrence of Cambridge have been appointed...
...University of Pennsylvania, will enter a four and eight oared crew, composed of graduate members of the Boat Club, who have rowed on University crews in past years, in the Schuylkill Navy Regatta...
...Yale. We certainly have many reasons for self-congratulation at the result of yesterday's game; yet we must make a determmed fight before we can win the championship. Over confidence is a dangerous quality, and victory is assured by hard work, not by past glory. Harvard's weakest point yesterday was in batting. It was not until the last of the game that out nine at all succeeded in fathoming Princeton's pitching. Yesterday's contest was in fact, distinctly a pitcher's game, and as such, great credit is due Harvard's pitcher whose work, in his first...
...Lacrosse team has begun the championship series this year, as it has for many years past, with victory. The lacrosse men are among the hardest workers of our athletic teams, and their victorious career for the years they have held the championship is the result of steady practice. We feel certain that the series this year will end for our team as it has begun with victory...