Word: touring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Paul's School eleven, of Concord, N. H., will make a tour of Canada shortly after the school breaks up in June. The eleven will remain at the school several days after the breaking up, so as to allow some of its members to take their college examinations. During this time it is probable that some matches will be arranged with the Longwood and Lawrence clubs. The material from which the eleven will be chosen is very good, and the team will be as strong as any the school has had for many years. The most prominent candidates at present...
...Glee and Banjo club of Princeton returned from their annual western tour on April 20th. The trip was much more extended than those of previous years and despite the fact that it occurred during Lent, large audiences were the rule wherever the clubs appeared. The singing of the Glee club was extremely good and the daily papers gave most flattering accounts of their efforts. The Banjo club made a hit everywhere and seldom played a piece without being recalled. The reportoire of the clubs contained very little classical music, old college melodies and comic airs mainly composing the progarmmes...
...baseball nine leaves tonight on its first spring practice tour. This is an important innovation, marking the removal of one of the great obstacles which have stood in the way of Harvard's success in the past. It remains with the nine to demonstrate the folly of the objections which have been brought against playing with professionals-a task which they will without doubt easily perform...
...cricket team of non-professionals under the captainship of Alfred Shaw, may make a tour of Canada next Autumn...
...Saint Paul School will send a cricket team on a Canadian tour this spring. Next year the team will go to Europe. The International Association is to arrange the dates...