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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association last evening on a text from the fifteenth verse of the twelfth chapter of Luke. When the regular meeting was over, the president of the association called a business meeting. D. C. Torrey '90 proposed that the society reprint five thousand copies of the article enticed "Harvard's Better Self," by W. R. Bigelow, which appeared recently in the New England Magazine. The motion was passed. It will cost $125 to print and send out five thousand copies...
...strength which had culminated at last in victory. As a Harvard man he thanked our coaches, Dr. Conant and the second eleven for their splendid services and congratulated them on their success. He pointed out the necessity of keeping next year in mind and ended by expressing the ten thousand thanks to 'varsity eleven and to their captain, which was but their...
Another trouble was that over a thousand more tickets were sold than there were seats. Part of these, we know, were squeezed out of the management unexpectedly at the last moment; but there is no excuse for anyone's being in such a position as to have to yield to the demand that was made. Moreover, the provisions for taking tickets at the gate were so inadequate that almost no attempt was made in the first rush to collect them, and consequently many tickets were resold. The rush could have been alleviated by better arrangements, especially by stipulating that...
Dean Scores the Winning Touch-down.Then picking up the ball, he rushed away for Yale's goal. It was a hard race between him and tall Hartwell, but Dean was to the line ahead. Again Trafford kicked the goal, and again ten thousand throats split the air. Score, Harvard 12; Yale...
...small injustice to those men, who in the interval before the erection of another great dining hall, must board at Memorial, to make them undergo all the disagreeable consequences of trying to eat in the midst of all the noise and unpleasant confusion which nearly one thousand men would be sure to make...