Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Captain Lauder of the Brown baseball team has issued a call for candidates to report on January 12 for preliminary work. The season's work will be begun with the nucleus of a very strong team, as Lauder, Fultz, Sedgwick, Perkins. Gammons, Boyd, and Cook, of last year's nine are still eligible. The schedule is nearly complete and is to contain games with Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Tenney, the old Brown player, now on the Boston league team, will do the coaching...
...place at a time when the real activity of the college has ceased, and its members are no longer engaged in their regular college work. Strictly speaking college athletics is meant to be an adjunct to college study. It should not be permitted to attain undue prominence during the season of serious college work, and it is a little inconsistent to continue it after that work has ceased. Such a course is particularly ill-advised when it necessitates an expense for transportation to a distance, and for training purposes. The effect is, on the whole, to exaggerate in the eyes...
...series of University Lectures proposed by the Twentieth Century Club of Boston. The object of the course is to give to teachers and others in professional life near Boston the privileges of instruction such as is given in summer by the Harvard Summer School. The first course for this season will be given by Professor Royce of Harvard on "The Social Factors in the Development of Individual Minds," and will be held in Jacob Sleeper Hall at 9 o'clock beginning on Saturday, January 15. In case this proves a success plans will be laid for a scheme of lectures...
Captain Bigelow briefly outlined the indoor work for the season, which will be somewhat lighter than heretofore. No men will be allowed to enter indoor games after March 1, in order that the men may have a thorough rest before the work on the track begins. The dual games with Pennsylvania have been given up, as the experience last year shows that three sets of games in one month are too many...
...annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Cricket Association held in Philadelphia last Monday, the following schedule of games for next season was adopted: May 18, Pennsylvania at Haverford; May 21, Harvard at Philadelphia; May 23, Harvard at Haverford. The championship for 1897 was formally awarded to Harvard. The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Howard H. Lowrey, Haverford; vice-president, Richard Haughton, Harvard; secretary and treasurer, Alan T. Henry, Pennsylvania...