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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hendee, the champion bicycle rider. has won prizes the past two years to the amount of two thousand dollars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/22/1883 | See Source »

...curious and interesting when looked at by the light of the present day-curious and interesting, that is, for those who admire the game, who do not taboo it as brutal because they cannot see its science, and who remember that to every man who hunts there are a thousand who play foot-ball, and that the percentage of accidents in the hunting field very far exceeds that of foot-ball accidents. He still reads that famous chapter descriptive of the schoolhouse match in "Tom Brown"-a chapter which, next to the other famous one concerning the fight between...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OLD FOOT-BALL PLAYER. | 12/22/1883 | See Source »

...roses are climbing walls of edifices and gardens and are now in full leaf and flower. The lawns and green-swards are as trim as art and labor can keep them, and as soft to the foot-step as velvet, and as the habit of a thousand years could make them. Today the examinations are all over, and the festivities of commemoration have begun. The men have for the most part doffed "the cap and gown," and are abroad in the streets and grounds of the colleges in the usually well-fitting garments of the English gentleman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OXFORD AT COMMEMORATION. | 12/21/1883 | See Source »

...edition of "Students' Songs," comprising the twenty-first thousand, has just been published by Moses King. This edition comprises over sixty of the songs as now sung at all leading colleges in America. Compiled by W. H. Hills (Harvard 1880), with the astance of F. R. Burton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/19/1883 | See Source »

...income from the university and club boat houses for the four years, ending March 31, 1884, no allowance being made for expenses incurred and to be incurred between Oct. 1, 1883, and March 31, 1884, $495.94 or 2.85 per cent per thousand on the investment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BURSAR'S REPORT. | 12/14/1883 | See Source »

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