Word: skilfull
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Saturday afternoon the 'varsity went to Andover to play the home team and drew a bigger crowd than the annual Andover-Exeter game ever did. The Andover men played pluckily, tackled well and ran immensely, but Harvard was too heavy and skilful for them and they fared badly.
After dinner, as in the morning, the men have the time all to themselves for one or two hours. A favorite occupation this year is to practice rifle-shooting in the field just beside the quarters. A target has been set up at about seventy-five yards, and some of...
The Monthly for April will probably appear to-day, but may be delayed. The advance sheets give promise of an exceedingly good number. Two of the articles in the number are of peculiar interest to college readers. "What do we Know About John Harvard?" by Dr. Hart, cannot fail to...
On the same subject the News says: "It is with great pleasure that we learn of the revocation of the Harvard faculty's decrees forbidding foot-ball. This course was taken, it seems, in response to a popular feeling among the students and professors, that the game as played under...
The news that the Rev. Dr. Peabody has been stricken with total deafness casts a gloom upon the entire college. No one more than Dr. Peabody has been or is respected by Harvard graduates and undergraduates. Indeed, it is expressing Harvard feeling all too mildly when we say that Dr...