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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ball will begin at 8 o'clock, and the first hour will be devoted to a reception during which the orchestra will render miscellaneous music. Instead of a dance program the orchestra will play continuously...
...National quarantine impracticable: - (a) Different sanitary condition of the several ports render uniform action impossible. (b) Local authorities more alert and efficient. (c) Division of authority between Nat'l and local boards would produce inefficiency: Ibid. (d) Local jealousies would be aroused. (e) Local regulations more elastic: e.g. action of N. Y. and Boston in Sept. 1892. (f) Mismanagement in one port less harmful than mismanagement in all. (g) Nat'l quarantine more expensive, because, organization must be permanent and universal to be effective...
...three hours, but was intensely interesting during the last three or four innings. The play was very much hampered by the crowding of both classes upon the base lines, in their efforts to rattle the opposing players, and the game was repeatedly called to clear the field to render respectable playing possible. The general impression that a stranger viewing yesterday's performance, would carry away, would, after making ample allowance for the intense class feeling which rightly exists between the two classes, certainly be derogatory to the gentlemanly spirit which is supposed to prevade the college at large...
...victory. They were kept back, however, by the more level headed men in the crowd. There have been two or three deliberate attempts to injure opponents. Once a base runner butted the third baseman in the stomach and again a short stop tripped a runner so severely as to render him unconscious. This spirit has affected the spectators so that yesterday many of them came around with mirrors to dazzle the fielders. The firearms, also, were brought to much closer quarters, some of the shotguns being discharged at the first baseman within a couple of yards of him. A yacht...
...commended for the persistent energy with which he has pursued his idea and the success which has attended his efforts to secure the money for the challenge cup. It is to be hoped that the Harvard Chess Club will take an active interest in the matter, and render what assistance it can in securing satisfactory rules for governing the contests...