Word: weeklies
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Dartmouth.- Last week the Dartmouth Navy voted in favor of rowing in fours and of leaving the matter of a New England Association and a regatta this fall in the hands of its Executive Committee...
...WEEK from to-morrow, Saturday, October 14, a practice-game of foot-ball will be played behind the Scientific School by two Fifteens selected from the best players who practise during the week. From these two Fifteens the University team will probably be selected, and all who care for a position upon the latter should practise regularly during the coming week...
...given by the treasurer in another column. So far the Nine has managed to pay its expenses through the year, without asking for subscriptions except for their uniforms. They have played many games, and the gate-money taken has usually met their expenses, without leaving a surplus. This week they play two games, - one in Boston and the other in Taunton; and next week two on Jarvis. Saturday the 24th they go to New Haven and play with Yale on Monday; they go then to play Trinity and Princeton; and, in case the game with Yale is lost, they will...
...were struggling manfully at the oar. At Oxford, twenty-one colleges have boats on the river, and consequently a hundred and sixty-eight men, in addition to the University eight, show their willingness to sacrifice their ease enough to row for their colleges. The races just ended lasted a week, and Brazenose came out at the "head of the river," having bumped University on the first or second night. Of the twenty-one boats only six held their positions without change from first to last. Something of the extent to which rowing is indulged in at Oxford can be realized...
...result of the working of this new system it is easy to foresee. Seniors, as was last week pointed out, will take pains - and often at the sacrifice of their personal preferences - to elect soft courses. Already there are reports of Juniors who are about to change their "well-considered plans," and give up studies for which they have a taste for those which will insure them their A. B.'s. I know of one man who has made a specialty of English and Saxon studies, who had elected English 4 for next year. He has taken all the other...