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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dinner to the eleven last night was from all points of view a marked success and both in numbers and enthusiasm, surpassed any dinner that has ever been given by Harvard men to an athletic team. The fact is more remarkable, too, when we reflect that the team in whose honor the dinner was given has been far from successful in actual victories won. There is but one conclusion to be drawn. Captain Cumnock and his men were honored for their manly struggle and signal fair play throughout the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/6/1889 | See Source »

...contagious disease most likely to make headway in a body of students. The danger would be most likely to come from an impure water supply. It is utterly impossible for a man to protect himself as an individual from such danger but he can support the public authorities whose business it is to look out for the general health...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Conference Meeting. | 12/4/1889 | See Source »

...university teams in recent years stands the record of victories won by the freshman teams. By defeating the Yale freshman eleven at New Haven Saturday, Ninety-three has added another victory to the long list. The game was played under discouraging circumstances,-on strange grounds and before spectators whose sympathies were almost entirely with the opposing team, and the credit of the victory is, therefore, all the greater. For in spite of the disheartening support received from the class, the freshman eleven played a steady game, not so good a game as it is capable of playing, but good enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/2/1889 | See Source »

...their position. It may be said that the charges against Princeton are not proved. The answer is that where there is so much smoke there must be some fire. Moreover, Harvard's position does not rest on the truth of the charges; Harvard simply washes her hand of those whose honesty is even questioned. The second criticism is that it would have been much better to have waited until the Princeton match and victory were old and the undergraduates' blood had had a chance to cool. I have already said that such a course seems much the wiser. Although there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Foot-Ball Question. | 11/30/1889 | See Source »

...offered in the coming dinner. It rests upon us by our attendance and our action there not only to show the eleven that we fully appreciate their work, but the world also that we stand as a body in defense of purity in college athletics. Those students, therefore, whose college patriotism is genuine will sign at once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/29/1889 | See Source »

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