Word: unions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SEVERAL hare-and-hound clubs have been lately organized, and have met with great success in their runs, so far. A run was held under the auspices of the Union Athletic Club, in Boston, last week, and was well attended. On November 13, a New Jersey club held their first meet of the season at Red Bank, N. J. We understand that a meeting will shortly be held at this University, to consider the advisability of forming a Harvard hare-and-hound club...
...government of the Union is intrusted to a President, elected by the members, - perhaps the highest social prize at Oxford, - and to a Board of Directors. The only paid official is the superintendent or steward...
Second, That each college nine shall play a series of three or five games, as shall seem best, with each other ball nine represented in the so-called League or Union...
...Union is an institution so admirable and so entirely successful at Oxford, that it seems strange that nothing of the kind has been attempted here...
...Beyond the newspaper reading-room is the debating-hall, which was greatly enlarged last summer. A large number of the men who go to Oxford expect to enter public life, for which we have no counterpart in our "politics"; they come up Liberals or Conservatives by education, and the Union debates are, for the most part, on political questions, - live questions, in which all have some concern; hence the debates have an interest and excitement unknown with us. Upstairs is the library, which is now very large, and much more used by students than the University or College libraries, where...