Word: takings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dear Sir-Yale has had sufficient time now to make good her representations of last year, and it is time for Harvard to take a decided stand. We regret that it has been from our side, though not our fault, that this discussion might not have been brought up and settled earlier. Now, however, considering the circumstances under which the game was played last year in New York instead of in New Haven where it was originally arranged, we will state once and for all that we will play Yale this year in Cambridge on Thanksgiving day, and then...
...Heffelfinger, a powerful freshman. Carbin at center completes the rush line. Wurtemburg, as quarter-back is playing almost as well as the famous Beecher. The half-backs will be Graves and McClung, both are playing remarkably well. Bull still fills his old place of full-back and will doubtless take all chances to kick goals from the field. The substantiates are Newell, Harvey, McBride, Pike and Brewster. Most of the men are of medium weight but will depend on their strength and agility to make up for their lightness. They are playing a very similar game to that of last...
...also voted that a new election of officers should take place at the next meeting of the society; this meeting to take place one week after date instead of two weeks...
...upper stories will be devoted to cryptogamic researches. The completion of the interior and the arrangement of the specimens will probably take ten months, so that the rooms will not be open till next year. The proposed connection between the two museums will probably be made into laboratories for research in natural history inasmuch as there is great need for such accommodations at present...
...expedition will take complete apparatus for the important work of photographing the spectrum of the sun and in addition will carry an ingenious instrument for measuring the brightness of the corona. One of the assistants started yesterday with a large part of the apparatus, for Peru; where a thorough study of the southern heavens will be made. While it is not yet assured that a permanent station will be established south of the equator, nevertheless the idea is seriously entertained and a part of the work of the expedition will be the examination of the exact facts in regard...