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Dates: during 1880-1889
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After this goal Dube and Clancy carried the ball to our defence field, where the men had very little to do and were napping. A lively scramble ensued; Peabody woke up with a start, bodied two men, fell over another, and sent the ball way down the field. The Harvard attack again seized it and after several lobs and passes, Blodgett secured our fifth and last goal. Time, three minutes...
Yesterday the 'varsity raced all the class crews, giving handicaps to each. They were to race '86 the first half mile, '87 the second, '88 the third, and '89 the last. At the start the 'varsity rowed right away from '86, finishing the half mile some two or three lengths ahead. They then took up '87, who reached the mile just ahead of them. Here '88 joined in the race, and at half a mile from the finish '89 did also. The last quarter-mile was quite close and exciting, '89 leading, and '88 a length behind. The freshmen crossed...
...Slumps worse than any man in the boat at both ends of the stroke. Fails to sit up to it and to get on to his stretcher. Doesn't row his oar way through. Should start forward quicker...
...Class Committee will soon start out on the war path to get subscriptions to the class fund...
...learn that efforts are being made to start a Cambridge Co-operative Union, modelled in a general way upon the Harvard Co-operative Society. Indeed, the success of the Harvard institution and similar organizations at other colleges is one of the arguments used to urge citizens of Cambridge to join. But the career of our society has already shown that the most careful management is necessary in order to make co-operation successful. It will not do to have any such miscalculation and over-extension of business as we saw here a little over a year...