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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Miscellaneous.- The Williams Freshmen play foot-ball by moonlight...
...Nine have been wisely improving all their opportunities during the past two weeks in getting that best of all practice, game playing; and, with one exception, they have met with unbroken success. They showed a perhaps unnecessary devotion to the cause by arranging a game for Saturday last, which, in a measure, conflicted with the football game; but their enthusiasm augurs continued success. The college games will soon begin. The first will be played to-morrow with Brown at Providence; a week later, the 12th inst., comes a game with Amherst at Amherst; and on the 26th inst. the first...
THERE are several circumstances in connection with the foot-ball game of last Saturday which deserve notice. The police arrangements were the worst we have ever seen at any match game in Cambridge; many rowdies and other persons without tickets entered the grounds and took seats before play had begun, and the scene at the end of the first half of the game, when the "muckers," unrestrained in the least degree by the police, rushed in and covered the grounds, was highly discreditable to all those who had the management of the game. The view of the ladies...
...essays are well enough, since they stimulate literary activity without involving cramming; but why examinations of the partial character announced should be made the object of intercollegiate contest it is hard to see. They call forth work, but not of the right kind. To examine a man on a play of AEschylus and orations of Demosthenes and AEschines cannot make him a broad Greek scholar, but will only force him to cram these subjects till he knows them by heart. Such an examination is no test of his ability to read the language. Again, it is necessary for a well...
...hesitations and accidents were unusually few, and, except the decapitation of a war-steed, at which critical moment the presence of mind of Sir Guy saved the day, no serious casualty occurred. Mr. Urquhart made a very pretty girl, and Mr. Wright an imposing queen. Darnley's part was played gracefully and well, and that of the rollicking King of the French admirably taken; and in fact, all did so well that to particularize would be unjust. The airs were a little old; but, altogether, Seventy-nine may congratulate themselves on having successfully presented a bright and amusing play before...