Word: poe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they are: J. A. Hodge, Jr., H. H. Balch, F. S. Wheeler, D. Brown and A. D. Richey, of the New York club; W. A. Davis, S. F. Johnson and J. K. Simpson of the Union club; C. C. Nichols of Harvard; E. P. Cottle, of Yale; S. J. Poe and H. W. Hall, of Princeton; J. C. Gerndt, formerly of N. Y. U., and J. A. Stewart of Chicago Calumets. This list includes the twelve regular and two substitutes. The average age of the members is 23 years 4 months; the average height, 5 feet 9 1-2 inches...
...games with Yale and New York University will be played in Cambridge and our twelve will have to make a trip this year to Princeton. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: president, Mallon '85, of Yale; vice president, C. J. Reuter, '84, Harvard; secretary-treasurer, Poe, '84, of Princeton. Harvard's member of the executive committee is H. M. Williams, '85. The meeting then adjourned sine...
...Spence, '85, has resigned the captaincy of the Princeton Lacrosse team, and Mr. Poe, '84, has been elected in his place...
...account of the college life of the poet Poe, written by a classmate of his in the University of Virginia, has just appeared. Poe is described as a man of great influence among his companions, of much personal magnetism, wild and unmanageable, and the ringleader of every escapade indulged in by the students; "yet," says his biographer, "whatever Poe may have been in after years, he was when I knew him at the University of Virginia as honest a friend as the sometimes waywardness of his otherwise noble nature would allow. There was not the least touch of insincerity...
...Princeton circles, yet the eleven has made great progress, and will undoubtedly play a strong game. Princeton played Stevens last Wednesday, and defeated them by a smaller score than our own. The entire regular eleven played with the exception of Moffat, the captain, who has a lame knee, and Poe, half-back, who, in the language of the New York Times "was closed for repairs." James Robinson trained the Princeton men, and Peace was referee of the game...