Word: shields
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard fencing team won the invitation team match of the New England division of the the Amateur Fencing League of America which was held in the gymnasium of the Boston Athletic Association on Saturday evening, thus winning the shield donated by the Boston Athletic Association. This prize is the first permanent trophy that has been won by a Harvard fencing team. The scores of the teams by bouts were as follows: Harvard, 13; Boston Athletic Association, 12; Boston Young Men's Christian Association, 2. H. Saint Gaudens '03 was a member of the Boston Athletic Association team. Each man fought...
...carved Harvard shield has been unearthed in the excavations on Plympton street. It will probably be put on exhibition at Thurston's in a few days...
...Weston-Smith '86, be adopted on February 1 as the seal of the Harvard Union. Five designs were submitted. Mr. Weston-Smith's design, which is here reproduced, represents, on a sable ground, a castle of a single tower, or; on the castle, above the gate, the Harvard shield in its proper colors. The tower, being the distinguishing feature in the Higginson coat-of-arms, is most appropriate for the seal of the Union. It was the common practice for a college or other endowed institution to adopt the arms of its benefactor. Thus the lion rampant in the seal...
...trophy which will be played for is a silver shield offered by Mr. T. N. Rice of New York and will become permanent property when it has been won three years in succession. Oxford and Cambridge won the first two matches and tied the match last year...
...portrait of Major Higginson was painted by Sargent during the summer, when the former was in London. As matters now stand the money received forms only about one-half of the sum required for both the portrait and the shield. A new committee will be appointed shortly and the work of collecting the remainder of the required sum will be begun...