Word: yesterday
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge Latin School defeated the Roxbury Latin School yesterday afternoon by a score of 22 to 0. This victory gives Cambridge the lead in the interscholastic league...
Professor Shaler said, yesterday, in one of his courses, that he was much better satisfied with the new system of voluntary recitations than with the old system of compulsory attendance. Under the old system an average of 75 per cent was seldom maintained for a month. Now an average of 90 per cent is often sustained for months at a time, with classes containing 250 members...
FOUND.- In Boylston, yesterday, a sum of money. Apply to janitor...
...expedition will take complete apparatus for the important work of photographing the spectrum of the sun and in addition will carry an ingenious instrument for measuring the brightness of the corona. One of the assistants started yesterday with a large part of the apparatus, for Peru; where a thorough study of the southern heavens will be made. While it is not yet assured that a permanent station will be established south of the equator, nevertheless the idea is seriously entertained and a part of the work of the expedition will be the examination of the exact facts in regard...
...fifth hare and hounds run of the season was held yesterday afternoon. The hounds won for the first time this year. It was a fast hunt; that is, there was no break and the hounds were not required to keep together. The hares, Gorham, '90 and Downs, '90 started from Matthews at 3.21 and left a very good trail through Cambridge to Fresh Pond, thence through Watertown, the Newtons, Brighton and Barry's Corners, leaving the back at the last named place. They arrived at the gymnasium at 4.55, after a hard run of twelve miles. Twelve hounds started...