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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large number of students went out to Jarvis Field early yesterday afternoon to witness the Kicking Tournament for the Graduate Cup. The weather was perfect, but the scores were poor owing to the fact that the men went out after lunch and kicked without any preliminarypractice. Dennison '92 won with a total of 13 points out of a possible 60. Trafford and Johnson tied for second place with is points each. The conditions of the tournament were as follows: 3 dropkicks at 25 yards, 2 points each; 3 place kicks at 0 yards, 2 points each; 3 drop kicks...
...final doubles in the tennis tournament were played yesterday afternoon on Jarvis field. The playing on the whole was poor and listless, owing a great deal to the coldness of the weather. Tallant and Lee defeated Lockett and Wrenn, 3 sets love, the score being...
...Wrenn, Tallant playing often into the net. The third game went to Tallant and Lee through placing by Tallant and good back-hand strokes by Lee. Tallant and Lee won the forth and fifth, while the sixth and seventh went to Lockett and Wrenn, all four games being very poor. Locket won the eighth game by some brilliant strokes, lobbing well. Tallant and Lee then took a brace and won the next four games by good playing. At the end of the tenth game the score stood 5 all. The eleventh game was the best of the match. The playing...
...took the first three games. Lockett placed well and drove Lee and Tallant from the net back to the end of the court. Lee won the fourth game on his service. The next five games and the set and match went to Tallant and Lee by very poor play ont eir opponents' part and by accurate placing. The score by games was as follows...
Frazer was poor and was working his way through college. Although he did not rank with the highest, yet his work showed great earnestness. His father's ambition, besides having his son go through college, was to collect a library for him, and he had obtained nearly five hundred volumes when fire destroyed them all. Again he set to work, and had collected about five hundred more volumes, when this sad accident occured. The class of '88 of the Boston Latin school have passed resolutions expressing their sorrow at losing so promising a member of their class...