Word: wednesdays
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...short distance up and down North Harvard street; and the distance men ran about a mile along the Charles River parkway. The track has been rolled and brushed thoroughly, and should be in condition shortly. Special attention will be given to the straightaway which will be ready for use Wednesday if the weather is favorable...
...Wednesday night in the Brookline tank there was a swimming meet. It was a handicap meet: Harvard met Yale. Now if by some extraordinary chance any one of the invisible legislators of Harvard athletic rules, whom all men concede to be the most gifted handicappers in the world, were present at this aquatie duel, he would have seen in all its broadcast evil and unfairness the severity of his own law. As it is, he may read about it in the papers to dismiss it with a tush...
Those men who did represent Harvard Wednesday night made a characteristic eleventh hour discovery that Yale, playing under a code of her own, was using freshmen on her 'varsity team. Harvard had but the melancholy resource of calling up by long distance telephone those members of the Athletic Committee known, who could in reply only endorse Harvard's previous understanding. "We play by our own rules," said Yale; "see how much better they are than yours." And so they are. The games went on and Harvard lost, where playing under Yale's rules she would have...
...selected by the Department of Economics of Amherst College to deliver the Henry Ward Beecher Lectures at that college for the current year. Three lectures will be given on the general subject of "The Economic Effects of the Tariff since the Civil War." The first lecture will take place Wednesday and the other two will follow on April...
Yesterday afternoon and Thursday the outfielders on the University baseball squad were given out-door practice catching files on the scrub football field. The pitchers commenced throwing curves on Wednesday, and since then have shown poor control, although some of them have good speed. The batting has been fair, but has fallen off since the middle of the week, due largely to the use of curves...