Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ahead that the excuse of training for them is hardly a reasonable one; no other ade quate reason can be suggested. We believe that we are justified in uiging those riders who have hitherto refused to enter, to reconsider their decision and to do their best to retain for Harvard the prestige in bicycling which they so fairly earned for her last year...
...lacrosse men have begun ourdoor work and, although the team has sustained a severe loss in the graduation of several of the best players, nevertheless, its work last fall has inspired confidence in its ability to retain the championship this year. The freshmen, too, are showing very commendable enthusiasm in the organization of a twelve, the prospect for which is quite promising...
...point of influence, since its founding, three years ago, has been steady. The addition of the new members will make the annual games which, it is to be hoped, may be held on Holmes Field, much more exciting. The Roxbury Latin School will make a strong effort to retain the championship which she has held for two years, while Exeter and Andover will doubtless send teams which will make a sharp fight for the pennant...
...Robinson will probably retain his professorship of moral and intellectual philosophy as well as the Elton professorship of Natural Theology. John L. Lincoln, professor of Latin language and literature, is spoken of as a temporary holder of the presidency, but no one has as yet been decided on to fill the place permanently. Prof. Elisha Benjamin Andrews who left the professorship of history and political economy last year to go to Cornell, is one of the most prominent candidates for the presidency and it is highly probable that he will be called to fill the place. President Robinson was graduated...
...since '77, when the league was founded, six times; while Yale has held it since '73, seven times, and since '77, five times. It has always been agreed that if in any year the issue should be a tie, the college which held the championship the year before should retain it. These facts should be well known and we should be satisfied if every one knew them, but as long as the record is distorted as it has been, the truth cannot be known. We recall and repeat the suggestion made some time ago that the graduate committee settle...