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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their various traits would have furnished profitable amusement for an entire day. Most of them realized the exhaustive nature of the display and were already fortifying the inner man with sandwiches, cheese, bits of sausage, and bottled beer. Anxious fathers and mothers were wedging a slow and painful progress through the crowd, towing some half dozen shock-headed, wide-eyed offspring of graded ages and heights. Surely little Fritz and Heinrich and Annchen and Kaetchie must see the gay colors and the prancing horses, albeit the pressure of the crowd, forcing their tender necks against the ropes over which they...
...laid well. The direction of the hunt was through Norton's Woods, where the scent was lost, to Somerville, into Medford, along the racing track at Mystic Park, and back by way of College Hill, running across the foot-ball field at Tufts, where a game was in progress. The bags were found just west of Porter's Station. There were twenty-six men at the break. The first hound in was T. C. Craig, '87, who acted as master of the hounds. R. T. Paine, Jr., was a close second. Baldwin '89, and W. Austin, '87, were respectively third...
...annual fall tennis tournament is now is progress at Yale...
...immediately attracted by the huge grand stand on the New London side of the river, which is built directly opposite the finish of the course. As only the end of the race can be seen from the stand, various methods are employed to keep the spectators informed about the progress of races from the very start. In the first place, there is a little telegraph office adjoining, through which a constant communication is kept up between the start and each separate half mile flag, and these messages are posted directly in front of the grand stand on huge blackboards erected...
...publish in another column the announcement that Columbia will hereafter admit women to the School of Arts upon the same footing with men. This is a step toward progress, if we may judge from the high success which has been attained in similar actions by other universities. We need not refer to the work at present done by women at the Boston University and the university of Michigan. Sufficient proof that women can compete successfully with men upon a collegiate basis is found in a comparison of the work done by men and by women at those universities. Few will...