Word: springs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Until the spring's sweet smile...
...hundred muzzle-loading Springfield rifles for Peabody breech-loaders and corresponding accoutrements. The amendment to the Constitution carried at the last meeting provides that attendance at half the number of regular company drills (one weekly) shall be necessary to entitle a member to target-shooting in the spring. A drum corps is in process of formation, and Freshmen or Sophomores, having instruments and being able to use them, are invited to join. Recruits will be received at any time, and the Constitution lies for signature at the Gymnasium...
...hoped to keep a clean score. We have been fairly and squarely beaten by a team as strong as any we have ever met, and we are willing to acknowledge that we did not expect to see in them the great improvement they have made since our game last spring. It is not our desire to find any paltry excuse for our lack of success; but we cannot help feeling that we have learned again the very old lesson of defeat from over-confidence. That such was the cause of our defeat must strike every one who reads an account...
...congratulate the Foot-Ball Eleven on their success against Tufts Tuesday afternoon. The fall sports have opened well for Harvard, and we have every reason to expect that next spring and summer will find us in as good condition as we were last year. We would, however, warn our athletes not to be over confident; we would remind them that, although prestige is an excellent thing in its way, it will not win victories in the ball-field and on the river, unless backed by continued hard labor. In the game with Tufts, as in the games we have played...
...door now, you could hide behind the curtain there, and I could get into the coal-closet; and when he got in we would let him get together all the things he wanted in this room, and when he went into one of the bedrooms we could spring out and shut...