Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nine are about to leave to play several games, during the recess, with the Metropolitans of New York and other clubs. All wish them success, and desire that our best hopes may be fully realized. We still retain most of our last year's nine, and these men, as well as the new candidates, have worked faithfully in the gymnasium and on the field. In common with most other college nines, Harvard will have a new pitcher and catcher this year, and very great interest is, therefore, attached to the preliminary games this week, in that they will serve...
...spite of the abolition of the standing high jump as an event in the inter-collegiate games, a measure which has been generally regarded as aiming at Harvard's athletic supremacy, we still have reason to hope for renewed success this year at Mott Haven. We retain most of our former champions who have done themselves and the university much credit for the last two years, and several promising additional candidates for athletic honors have appeared, who bid fair to keep up Harvard's prestige. A revived interest in athletics exists among us at present, and most of our athletes...
...some talk about fixing up the old ball ground on the campus, by taking off the turf and loam, and filling in with hard gravel on the infield; but, in as much as this has been spoken of about every year, we presume that the turf will still retain its place on the ball ground...
...most fortunate things for Harvard throughout her history has been her ability to retain the active interest in her welfare of so many of her sons after their real connection with her has ceased. Perhaps few graduates have manifested so much devotion to her interests as the late Dr. H. W. Bellows of New York. This characteristic of Dr. Bellows was well appreciated by the New York Alumni when they expressed their wish that he might represent them on the board of overseers; although, as will be remembered, he was prevented from taking his seat on that board because...
Considerable disturbance in political circles in Virginia is anticipated in regard to the State auditorship which Auditor Massey wishes to retain...