Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Owing to a rule of the faculty which forbids freshman teams to play outside of Cambridge on any day except Saturday, games which had been arranged with Exeter and Andover were obliged to be cancelled...
...President Barnard, of Columbia College, died last Saturday. Born at Sheffield Mass., in 1809, be entered in 1824, graduated with high honors in 1828 and became a tutor there. From 1837 to 1839 he was professor of mathematics and natural history in the University of Alabama. He remained there until 1854, when he became professor of astronomy in the University of Mississippi. In 1856 he was elected president of the University of Mississippi, and in 1864 became president of Columbia College...
...freshman Glee and Banjo clubs gave a concert Saturday night in Boston at the rooms of the Boston Art club. This was the first concert given by the two freshman musical clubs together and they acquitted themselves very creditably. The Glee club gave about ten selections and the Banjo club six. The Glee club was not at its best, but most of the songs were well received, and met with considerable applause. The solos of Mr. Berry deserve especial mention. They were well rendered and heartily received. The playing of the Banjo club was very good. The men played with...
...team of six men from the Harvard Shooting Club, shot against the Country club team at Brookline Saturday afternoon, winning by two birds. The match was very close throughout, the teams being tied four or five times, and it was only by steady, hard shooting that Harvard won. The greater part of the match was shot in the rain, which, with a slight mist, and a dark background, made the birds hard to see. The Harvard team shot steadily, and although none of the individual scores were as high as one made by a member of the Country club team...
Harvard was beaten 8 to 5 in a seven innings game by Williams at Williamstown Saturday afternoon. The day was stormy and made good playing out of the question, but the condition of the weather does not account for the utterly reckless manner and lack of determination shown by Harvard. The men that constitute the Harvard University nine ought to understand by this time that they are expected to make at least a fair showing. What the result of a Harvard-Princeton game will be, judging from Saturday's and other games played so far this season, is too ridiculous...