Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Permit me to make, in your paper, a brief statement of the result of the canvass to raise funds for the German library. In spite of the unseasonable time of the year, and of other grave hindrances, the members of the working committee have been able to collect about two hundred dollars, and more is promised. In view of material increase to the fund started by Mr. Henry Villard, work has already been begun in Sever 2, and by the fall, a comfortable library will be ready for the students of German literature. Two hundred volumes have been purchased...
...earnestly desired to thank those gentlemen who have been so kind as to contribute and also those who have been willing to give their time at a season when they could ill afford...
...hoped that it will be decided to play the game before Class Day. So many of the undergraduates leave Cambridge at that time that their absence will be severely felt in the support which the team will receive at the game. Then, too, it is only reasonable for the college to demand that one of the Yale games should be played before next Friday. Only two championship games have been played here the whole season, and although the postponement of Saturday's game was unavoidable, it is but natural for the men in college to demand that...
...years, the crew has worked this year with a faithfulness which has won for it the heartiest support of the university. It is everywhere felt that every effort has been made to send to New London the very best crew that can possibly be got together at Harvard. Neither time, practice nor energy has been spared in the effort. In the face of many serious difficulties, Captain Herrick has made a crew of which it may safely be said that they will row a strong race-a crew which even Yale's veterans will have a hard struggle to defeat...
...year In it the athletic interest of the year culminates, a victory being the greatest glory and defeat the greatest disappointment. We look forward to the race this year with confidence and well earned victory may check the decline of Harvard's athletic prestige that reawaken the old-time enthusiasm which will bring success in the other branches of athletics next year...