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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent meeting of the trustees of Columbia College the question of appointing a president was discussed but no decision was reached...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/6/1889 | See Source »

...changes since the beginning of the season, and neither are playing so good a game as the nines of these schools have played in recent years. Andover is handicapped by the inability of Stearns to pitch. If he were in his last year's form there would be little question of the result of the game but without him in the box the work of the team is exceedingly erratic. The nine is at present made up as follows: Dickerman, cf.; Upton, p.; Stearns, lf.; Owsley, ss.; McCormick, rf.; Cheney, 2b.; Leland c.; Brown, 3b.; Pond, 1b. White, who played...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Andover-Exeter Base-Ball Game. | 6/5/1889 | See Source »

...which he had neglected to test beforehand, and when he came to use it he found that it was too heavy. He thought that Leavitt's pole would suit him better, and requested the loan of it. Leavitt is a much lighter man than Shearman, and there was considerable question whether the pole would endure the additional strain; it was therefore perfectly natural that Leavitt should be unwilling to lend his pole. The case was brought before the measurers, who decided, but not unanimously, to allow Shearman to borrow Leavitt's pole. After Leavitt had won the event handily, breaking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Truth about the Pole Vault Matter. | 6/5/1889 | See Source »

...accordance with the instructions of the mass meeting of April 15, the committee then appointed to consider the question of forming a dual league with Yale reported to another mass meeting held for that purpose last evening in Holden Chapel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report of the Committee appointed to consider the Question of a Dual League. | 6/3/1889 | See Source »

...clock this morning the first annual meeting of the Interscholastic Athletic association will be held on Holmes field. For several years the standard of athletics in preparatory schools has been growing higher. More thought and care have been devoted to them, until now it has become an important question which college shall number in succeeding years the athletes of the schools. The association which holds its first meeting this morning has been recently organized and is designed to increase the interest in track athletics at the nine schools represented, and so develop material for the colleges. As the schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/30/1889 | See Source »

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