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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sturgis, '90, has resigned the position as Secretary of the Intercollegiate Chess Association. Bliss, '88, was elected to this position last spring, but as he was unable to serve, appointed Sturgis to succeed him. Harvard will not have any representative on the executive committee of the Association at present...
...part of the different college papers, and this fall has been no exception to the rule. But the attendance of three or four hundred students at a foot-ball game played in a drenching rain must have been a matter of surprise to any stranger who might have been present at Saturday's game. In no better way can the college show its appreciation of the praiseworthy efforts of the eleven than by its action on Saturday; and the enthusiasm thus shown under the greatest drawbacks, as far as physical comfort is concerned, must have been extremely gratifying...
...cane spree resulted in a draw, '91 and '92 each winning a cane and a half. Since this event, class feeling has largely subsided and all apparent animosities between the two lower classes have, for the present at least, been laid aside...
...first lecture occurred Nov. 6. the subject being "The Rise of Islam." This evening the subject will be "Mohammedan Doctors and Saints." Nov. 20, "Arabic Literature." Nov. 27, "The Present Outlook...
...Leland Miller, of Sheffield, Mass., has given $40,000 to Williams College to found a professorship of American History, Literature and Eloquence. There is no such professorship at present in any college in this country...