Word: selective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Graduate Advisory Board on foot-ball from all the colleges meets in New York tonight to select umpires and referees for the games this fall...
...continuation of the preliminary contest to select the players who are to go to New Haven October 8 to represent Harvard in the struggle for the intercollegiate team championship tookplace yesterday afternoon on Jarvis field. The day was so raw that none of the men played at their best, and the wind blowing directly across the court hindered to some degree careful placing. In the singles H. Tallant beat Tailer 6-4, 7-5. Tallant accordingly meets Sears for first place...
...proposed that the class, at its meeting, elect no football captain. Mr. Sears, captain of the 'varsity eleven, has kindly offered to take charge of the candidates for the freshman team and see to it that they are thoroughly trained. Then the team, after it has been chosen, will select its own captain. The scheme has much to recommend it. The advantages to the candidates in having the personal supervision and advice of Mr. Sears are apparent. There is always, necessarily, more or less time lost in getting the candidates for the freshman football team into regular training...
...preliminary contest to select the players who are to go to New Haven to represent Harvard in the contest for the intercollegiate lawn tennis championship, which takes place on October 8, took place yesterday on the Beck Hall courts. P. S. Sears beat R. D. Brown 9-7, 8-6, and H. Tallant beat Q. A. Shaw in two sets. Tailer will play Tallant at two o'clock today and the winner will probably play Sears...
...last year the boat club appointed a committee of four graduates "to take entire charge of boating matters." This will be more easily understood when it is explained that this committee had the power to choose the captain; decide on the policy under which the crew should be conducted; select the men, and direct the crew in every way, both in and out of the boat. A change so revolutionary in its character could not help materially affecting the pride of the undergraduates in their crew. To take the management of so important a department of athletics entirely...