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Word: standings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...officious, I should like to make another suggestion, and that is that the foot-ball management put some five hundred or more of the best grand-stand tickets on sale here at Cambridge, so that those who go from here, who certainly should be well provided for, may be sure of obtaining good seats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 11/17/1887 | See Source »

...library during the night. The argument of fire might have had some force during the days when gas was the sole means of illuminating public buildings, but since the introduction of electricity, which has now become superior to gas, the argument falls to the ground. As the case stands now, the only time a student can use the reference books in the library is in the morning, when his hours are generally taken up by recitatations, and in the afternoons when either laboratory work or the thousand and one things a person finds it more pleasant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 11/16/1887 | See Source »

Mayor Russell has consented to stand for a fourth term in response to a petition from 1500 Cambridge citizens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/15/1887 | See Source »

...byways of this classic town to Appleton Chapel, where Dr. Brooks was to preach-that even before the hour specified all the seats except a very few near the front were filled-mainly with Cambridge citizens. The complainants go on to assert that many students were obliged either to stand at the very back of the chapel or to go away, for lack of sufficient space in which to bestow themselves. Now Appleton Chapel was built for Harvard College and for the use of Harvard students. Eminent preachers are engaged to come here and talk to us, and the more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/15/1887 | See Source »

...more time in keeping the field clear than they do instructing the players. Carelessnes like this on the part of any men who know the value of practice for the team, and that the foot-ball field is the place for such practice, and not for the spectators to stand in,- carelessness, I say, is greatly to be blamed. Every man can see exactly as well if all stand behind the line as they should. But whether he can or no is a matter of small consequence. Jarvis is for the practice of the eleven, and if he cannot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/14/1887 | See Source »

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