Word: weather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About seven or eight men assembled in Holden Chapel last night in reference to the appeal for the grand stand. As the attendance was so small, owing to the bad state of the weather, on the motion of Mr. Fessenden, the meeting was indefinitely postponed...
Half-mile walk. Dead heat between H. H. Bemis, '87, and E. C. Wright, '86; time, 3m. 36s. This event was creditable, considering the unfavorable weather...
...spite of the unfavorable weather yesterday, the tournament was completed before four o'clock. In the singles Lee beat Federhen, 6-4, 6-3, and in the finals was beaten by Philip Sears after a brilliant contest, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5. In the last round of the doubles, the Sears brothers beat Kuhn and Keep, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Philip Sears is the college champion in singles, and he and his brother hold the championship in doubles. The tournament was a great contrast to last year's, the playing being spirited throughout and the whole affair...
...present fair weather offers especial inducements for scrub games of foot-ball. The active formation of many elevens is already going on. No field of athletic enjoyment and profitable exercise presents so many attractions to the average non-athletic man as scrub foot-ball. Here he is fairly matched against men who know as little of the game as himself, and who can yell as loudly and do as little as himself. This system of scrub games is one of the best for fostering a lively interest in foot-ball, for by it men of every stamp of athletic attainment...
...anyone of an inquiring turn of mind should walk out on Brattle Street for about half an hour, he would come to the grounds of the Harvard Polo Club. There is nothing magnificent about them, no immense grand stand, but only a shed which gives shelter in rainy weather to the players and the ponies alike. The field is about twice the size of Jarvis, and is covered with a good turf. The situation is a very pleasant one, for one is able to see hills in the distance, and one's view is not confined to a small space...