Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...could make a good beginning this year by putting on exhibition the cups now known to be in existence in the University. The Cumnock Cup, the West Point Cup, the Tennis Trophy and the old Mott Haven Cup are permanent trophies and should be in some place where they can be seen. Besides these there are the various trophies held for a year, such as the Shooting Cup, the Fencing Trophy and the Chess Cup, which might well be on exhibition. If these trophies are sent to the Gymnasium the Director offers gladly to take charge of them...
...those who won points at the Mott Haven games last spring, Bremer, who won the low hurdles, and Mason, who won second in the broad jump, have left college. Hollister in the half mile, Grant in the mile, and Denholm in the sprints were the other point winners...
...meeting at Mechanics' Hall Saturday evening was every successful from a Harvard point of view...
...strictest following of that suggestion, however, can hardly justify one old custom-the Memorial Hall custom of stamping whenever some thoughtless visitor in the gallery keeps on his hat. There is not dignity or point enough in the practice to make it worth the name of a Harvard custom. Few visitors know what the stamping means when it begins and only a part of them find out before it ends. The rest go away with strange ideas of Harvard manners. All in the gallery must feel uncomfortable and embarrassed to see several hundred men gaping and stamping at them...
...West Point will not send a team to compete in the intercollegiate fencing tournament, as permission to do so has been refused by the United States authorities...