Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the directors of the Co-operative Society Wednesday evening it was decided to declare a dividend of two-thirds of the net surplus of last year's earnings...
...support the team. It will give impetus to a newly developed interest in foot-ball, which, if kept up and developed, must benefit not only the athletic interests in the school, but sooner or later, those of Harvard herself, to whom the Latin school sends so many students every year...
...over her competitors, it has been decided that a new tank is not only desirable but necessary, While Yale is thus showing energy and enterprise in boating matters, Harvard, in marked contrast, is apparently doing nothing to advance her interests in this branch of athletics. The defeat of last year has proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that under present conditions Harvard's chances of winning are practically worthless. If we would compete with Yale on equal footing we must have a rowing tank...
Considerable interest is shown at Columbia College at present in the prospective junior ball, announced for December twenty-first. This reception is honored in most American colleges but not until this year has it been proposed at this institution. The committee, consisting of Messrs. Gildersleeve, Coudert, Gerard and Reeve, have obtained permission of the faculty to use the library building on this occasion. Instructors are cordially co-operating with the committee of arrangements in their endeavors. All Columbia students are invited to attend, and a great success is predicted...
...first foot-ball game between Harvard and Yale freshman teams took place in Boston twelve years ago, when Harvard, '80, defeated Yale, '80, on the Boston Common by a score of three goals to nothing. Since then, with but three exceptions, freshman foot-ball games have been played every year, and in some years two games took place. In 1877, the Harvard freshmen again succeeded in defeating the Yale freshmen, winning two games, one at New Haven and one at Boston, and losing none. In 1878 there was no game; but the year after Yale turned tables upon Harvard...