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Word: points (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many freshmen as can possibly get off will accompany the nine. It is unfortunate, to be sure, that the game takes place in the very midst of the examinations, but there are certainly many men who are not so engaged on Saturday; and these men should make it a point of duty, as well as of pleasure, to show confidence in the nine by attending at the game. And eighty-nine must show this confidence, if she wants the nine to do anything. It is true that the record made thus far by the nine is far from satisfactory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/8/1886 | See Source »

...seen, however, whether individuals will back their abstract preferences, or let the question, "ought the faculty to treat undergraduates as boys or men?" be settled, for many years to come, by a few irresponsible larkers acting for their own personal amusement now. I must confess that the weak point of the Harvard character seems to me to be a lack of moral courage in the deeper affairs of life. An individual who comes here full of it, finds himself in a non-conducting medium. His vibrations die away like the sound of a bell in an air pump. I have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER FROM PROF. JAMES. | 6/2/1886 | See Source »

...largest sophomore society should have taken the preliminary steps for such an enjoyable reunion as these events always are. The gentlemen who have been chosen to officiate at the dinner are in every way qualified to do their parts admirably, and to make the dinner a brilliant one in point of wit and music, as well as in other respects. To have the dinner an entire success, the whole Institute should attend in a body, and make the second of June a red-letter day in the annals of sophomore reunions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/27/1886 | See Source »

...outplayed '89 at every point yesterday, and won as they pleased. The game was long and uninteresting, after the fifth inning, and was called in the eighth inning on account of darkness. Power occupied the box for '87 after the third inning, and pitched well. The features of the game were the batting of Power, and a fine one handed stop by F. S. Coolidge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Base-Ball. | 5/25/1886 | See Source »

...Harvard team played as follows: goal, Peck; point, Easton; cover-point, Goodale; defence field, Griffing, Weed, Towle; centre, Gardner; attack field, Davidson, Hood, Hale; homes, A. T. Dudley, Blodgett. Latta, substitute, played in goal after Hood's injury in the Stevens game and Peck went out into the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse. | 5/22/1886 | See Source »

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