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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There has been considerable comment and much ill-feeling manifested in regard to the inexcusable delay in presenting the prizes won in the various athletic contests. There is certainly no reason why the persons on whom devolves the duty of providing these cups should not have them ready at least within a reasonably short period after the contest in which they were won. Instances of the failure in question are numerous; the following may be cited: The cups for the H. A. A. fall meetings were not out until six weeks had elapsed since the event, while the cups...
...later period Shakspere was drawn away from the beautiful boy by a new passion which roused the baser part of his nature. Conscious of his own degradation, he realized that, to attain a true immortality, life must be identified with conditions superior to mortality. Of the various kinds of immortality mentioned by the poet only the one which he thought most doubtful, namely his own reputation, still endures. We have no evidence that his friend had a son, and the sonnets have not preserved for us his name or even his appearance. The words "Time will come and take...
...Friday evening of this week will be held the annual meeting of the Co-operative society. The business of the meeting will consist of the election of officers and the reading of reports from the various committees and from the superintendent. The past year has been the most successful in the history of the society. Under the system that prevailed up to the beginning of the present year, considerable dissatisfaction was felt to exist, and to remove this the present system was devised by the superintendent, Mr. Waterman, and adopted by the society. The wisdom of this change is shown...
...yesterday's issue we published a short account of the doings of the cricket eleven. Cricket is a sport which should be encouraged here; and the various cricketers of Harvard have striven earnestly to obtain a firm footing for the game. The team has been very successful in its matches with teams from the neighboring towns, but those interested naturally want a wider field. Therefore they have arranged a game with a team from the University of Pennsylvania, probably the first amateur cricket eleven in the country. This game is to take place on Holmes Field, a fact which ought...
...large proportion of the lectures and recitations were omitted. The base-ball cage was filled with snow, so that the candidates for the nine were unable to practice. The universal amusement has been snow-balling, much to the distaste of tutors and "cops." The various crews will begin rowing on the harbor again as soon as the weather permits. Owing to the very limited number of barges, the class crews are able to get out on the water only on certain days in the week. The candidates for the 'varsity crew are now reduced to thirteen, and has been...