Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cadets of Annapolis are making preparations to form a football team this year...
...Last year a box was placed at the door of the dining room of Memorial Hall to receive papers and periodicals for the Cambridge Hospital. For a time after attention was called to the box, contributions of papers were numerous, but toward the end of the year men grew careless and there was a noticable falling off in the number of papers found in the box. The object is a worthy one and we feel certain that it is only necessary that the attention of the men be called to it again to make the contributions to the hospital...
...tennis association which should be open to all American colleges. At this meeting but four colleges were represented. An invitation was extended to Harvard and Williams, but the latter, on account of the death of representive players in college, was unable to accept. In the fall of the same year, a tournament, which was to be the first of a series of annual contests, was held at Hartford. The winners were: In singles. H. A. Taylor, 86, Harvard; second, L. Thorne, '85, Yale; in doubles, Taylor and Presbey, Harvard, with Thorne and Knapp of Yale second. In the fall...
...Trinity. In 1887, University of Penn, was represented for the first time. There were delegations from ten colleges. Sears of Harvard won the singles, with Campbell of Columbia second. Sears and Shaw of Harvard won the doubles, with Hall and Campbell of Columbia second, The tournament of this year was in no wise less successful than its predecessors. Sears of Harvard again captured the first prize in singles by defeating Hall of Columbia. Hall and Campbell, however, in the doubles won from Sears and Shaw of Harvard...
...first meeting of the year of the Harvard Total Abstinence League took place last evening in Sever 11. The meeting was called to order by the president, D. C. Torrey, '90, who stated the objects of the league and expressed the hope that all members of the university who were in sympathy with the work of the league even though not total abstainers themselves, would join it. He then introduced Rev. Francis G. Peabody, D. D., who said that the question which was before them was the principal social issue of the times whether in religion, in politics...