Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Technology and Dartmouth are tied in the number of games won in the eastern league, but Technology will retain the championship which they won last year...
...leave Cambridge, whether they go to feast with their families or to search for a foot-ball game, the warning that has come from official sources; namely, that although the students have never been strictly limited to a holiday of twenty-four hours only at this season of the year, the practice of extending the vacation to several days must not be carried too far. The faculty has intimated this fall that those who remain away from Cambridge for more than three days will be severely dealt with. We advise those men who have made arrangements which will cause...
...fitting schools in the vicinity of Boston prepare for Harvard. From them we receive, to a large extent, our material for our athletic teams. It is for our own interest, therefore, as well as for theirs, that a cup be offered. The success of the plan this year in foot-ball leaves no doubt as to its advisability, and is an argument also, for the offering of similar cups in other sports. Base-ball as well as foot-ball, should be stimulated, and there is no better plan for accomplishing this end than the one adopted this fall. Harvard athletics...
...trustees of the Peabody fund decided to establish a normal college in the South. Application was made to the Tennessee Legislature to charter such an institution, the trustees promising to contribute liberally to its support. In 1875 the bill was passed and in December of the same year the college opened with Dr. E. S. Stearns as President...
...Stearns died in April. 1887, and was succeeded by Dr. William H. Payne of Michigan University. The college opened last month with an increase of 30 per cent over the attendance of any previous year in the college's history...