Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...clock and fully 5000 had to be turned away. More persons paid for admission to the two grand stands than could be accommodated with sea sand these had to take their chances with the howling, cheering crowd which surrounded the ropes on all sides. A great many ladies were present, accompanied by their brothers or escorts and they cheered just as loudly as their male companions...
GENTLEMEN-Will you kindly inform a graduate, former editor, lover of foot ball, and present reader of your paper, what ground you have for the assertion you make in your issue of the 26th inst., that "for years it (a dual league) has been talked of and considered the final solution of all difficulties? " Has not this talk been confined to Harvard, and if so is it not worse than useless? Yale has complete control in the matter, as she is wanted by all parties. When she submits to us a proposition for a dual league, it will be well...
...criticism of Harvard's action published today presents another phase of the misconception which has grown up concerning our present attitude on the football question. The questions are asked, Is not the dual league after all purely a Harvard scheme? Has not Harvard by withdrawing hurt rather than bettered her position? The answer to one question is the answer to both. The trouble with Princeton has no don't called out an expression of much needless ill-feeling. It is impossible, however, despite our recent defeat at her hands, that Princeton should put into the field a fair team capable...
...most interesting articles in the number discusses the tendencies past and present, of architecture in the west. Mr. Van Brunt is hopeful of a rational and artistic architectural development in the western states. He admits that "the prejudices and desires of the most impartial observer must necessarily color his deductions;" but he says, "I venture to believe, however, that the forward movement has gone far enough to enable us to appreciate the spirit of it, if not to comprehend the general direction of its progress." This spirit he conceives to be the change coming about by natural growth...
...year the Academic department has increased from 688 to 727; the Scientific school from 308 to 335; the Law school from 106 to 107; the Medical school from 35 to 47; and the Theological school from 133 to 140. The Art school has fallen from 47 to 39. The present freshman classes in both the Academic department and the Scientific school are the largest in the history of the college...