Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...track athletics, it has been decided to hold a freshman meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 25th. The programme for this meeting will be the same as for the university meeting, except that throwing the hammer and putting the shot will be left out. No freshman who has ever done any thing in the way of track athletics, or who has reason to think he can do any thing, should fail to enter his name for some event in this meeting. Fuller information of the events to be contested, prizes, etc., can be found from the posters, which will...
Conversation overheard at Memorial : Waiter No. 1 - "Dis am a fine structyah, Sam?" Waiter No. 2 (critically) - "De exteryh is very fine, sah, but dere is one thing I have notussed about de interyur, - dey have only got foah of de windows painted...
...them also. And if this happens Harvard will not be placed at an unfair disadvantage in her contests with other colleges. But what has seemed to many radically wrong in our sports, I think, has been their growing exclusiveness. Of course the highest excellence in all sports is a thing we all approve of and desire to see attained at Harvard; but when almost all athletic exercises become narrowed down to so few men, and only men of naturally fine athletic abilities, or those who are willing to devote a very considerable proportion of their time to training and practice...
There has been no time in the history of Yale boating when every thing pertaining to the University crew has been kept so distressingly secret as during the present year. Whether this seccrey is an advantage or not is one of those things which every one must wait to find...
...than as brilliant, and his management has been eminently satisfactory. To have the pleasure of leaving college as the captain of a championship nine snatched from him so suddenly, after he has played upon it so long and so well, is surely the bitterest of disappointments. But of one thing he can rest assured, that Harvard will never forget the good work he has done...