Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sale of tickets to Springfield on Saturday's special train was closed at Leavit and Pierce's at 12 o'clock yesterday. Tickets may be obtained at the B and A. R. R. station, or 232 Washington street today. After today only a limited number of tickets will be for sale so that those who have not obtained tickets by that time may be unable to buy them...
...special car filled with young ladies from Boston will be attached to the nine o'clock train to Springfield on Saturday...
...subject of intercollegiate athletics. It is an article that every man interested in the present athletic situation would do well to read for it goes right to the heart of the matter and contains a condemnation of the professionalism which is now so prevalent. The game with Princeton last Saturday and the meeting held in New York last week are made the basis of the article. The writer says that a state of athletics when protests and affidavits are even necessary is not the state which should be sought after by college men in their contests with each other...
...downright and unconcealed slugging of Saturday's game is also condemned. There is a great deal of difference between a game played strongly by both teams, which is necessarily rough, and one when the aim of a team is evidently to knock their opponents out or to use them up so that they are unfit to offer any resistance...
Another point highly censured and rightly so, is that men on Jarvis last Saturday paraded up and down in front of the benches, their hands full of money and invited or rather taunted men to bet. Betting is an evil inseparable from college as much as professional athletics, but that it should be carried on in so open and disgraceful a manner, shows clearly that professionalism is fast tainting the whole structure of intercollegiate contests...