Word: returned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Seniors will soon have to decide upon the manner in which they shall celebrate their Class Day, a few suggestions on this point are not out of place. I wish to urge upon them a return to old customs and a repetition of the Class Day of seventy-six : I say seventy-six advisedly, for the one alteration in the ceremonies that was made by that class seems to me to have been a wise one. We must admit, however much we may dislike the prevalent cant about dignity, that the old rushes between the Sophomores and the Freshmen added...
...from the out field, Dow's capture of a difficult fly, after a hard run, Howe's play at third, and the pitching and catching of Ernst and Tyng, were noteworthy features of the game. The base-hits, though few, were well timed, and the batting generally hard. A return game will be played with the same club to-morrow at 3 P. M. on the Boston grounds...
...seem probable that after we had won another race we should have, here at Harvard, some of the old-time interest in boating; that the return to Cambridge of the victorious pennant would set ablaze a fierce enthusiasm for rowing; but now the double triumph of our crew and the addition to Harvard's trophies of two sets of colors arouses a little, feeble interest, which cannot call together a meeting of respectable numbers, and kindles one pitiable spark of enthusiasm, which flickers in a single weak cheer and goes out without a sputter. No more interest, no more enthusiasm...
THIS is the reception which awaited the editors of the Courant on their return to New Haven the other...
...last year there has been, for a long time, no return at all to the money subscribed for the crew; but the recent victories have done much to encourage subscriptions in that quarter. The clubs, however, which have been gradually going from bad to worse, are in a more hopeless condition than before. Since the future of the crew depends largely on these clubs, something must be done to connect the crew with them, so that the subscriber to the crew shall receive in return, not only the uncertain promise of victory, but the definite personal enjoyment of rowing...