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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seemed advisable to row but one race. The men, sixteen in number, have been training hard in Wood's gymnasium since January 1. Last Monday, for the first time, they took the water, under the direction of their temporary coach, C. K. Beekman, '89. Little attention is given at present to speed, and the men are busy learning how to handle the oars and practising the body swing, There are two provisional crews now rowing, one composed of candidates from the School of Arts, the other from the School of Mines. The chief difficulty at first was in dipping...
...order that the change may be easily made, should it meet with the approval of the proper authorities. We have received several communications and many direct requests urging us to make this suggestion, and we hope that the matter may be arranged more satisfactorily than it is at present...
...time is now very close at hand when the freshman nine will be definitely selected from the candidates at present competing for positions on the team. It is yet too early to predict with any degree of certainty as to the likely result of the annual contest with Yale, for no games, which alone can test the true worth of a team. have yet been played. The first game of the season is to occur at Andover next Saturday, and it may be well to remind before hand those who will represent '91, that they are expected to play ball...
...freedom and variety of dress of the present Harvard student contrasts peculiarly with the dress of the undergraduate of fifty years ago. The law was passed by the authorities in 1822, and it was at once put into practice. It reads substantially as follows: "The coat must be of black-mixed, called also Oxford-mixed, single breasted, with a rolling cape square at the end, and with pocket flaps; waist reaching to the natural waist, with lapels of the same length; skirts reaching to the bend of the knee; three crows-feet, made of black silk cord on the lower...
...years it has steadily improved, until now it is acknowledged the best preparatory weekly printed. Its success is due to the painstaking care of each individual editor in the writing and publishing of every issue. In order to commemorate the completion of the ten years of its existence, the present board have decided to give a dinner at the Parker House during the latter part of this month, and in pursuance with this plan all former editors have been asked to attend...