Word: yesterday
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIRS: Some slight correction should be made in the account given by you yesterday of the new boat house...
...annual tournament of the Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis association was begun yesterday afternoon on the grounds of the New Haven Lawn club. The most interesting play was between Tallant of Harvard and Hovey of Brown. Hovey took the first set easily. Tallant braced in the second set and by good steady playing, the score alternated to 6-all, Hovey winning the match. Kingsley of Harvard and Wright of Trinity also played an interesting match, Kingsley winning. The scores are as follows...
Porter '88, coached the eleven yesterday afternoon...
...freshman class met in Upper Massachusetts yesterday afternoon at 1.30 for the election of officers. Upon motion of the class, Mr. Cumnock was made chairman of the meeting. Nominations for president were then asked for and the names of Mr. Fearing of Cutters, Mr. Trafford of Exeter, and Mr. Strong of Boston Latin were placed before the class. A committee of three, consisting of Mr. Herrick, '90, Mr. Dean, '91, and Mr. Rantoul, '92 was appointed to receive the ballots, and the class proceeded to a vote. The first ballot gave Mr. Fearing a pleurality but not a majority which...
...confusion which has in the past so often characterized meetings of the freshman class was fortunately obviated yesterday afternoon by the presence in the chair of an upper cassman. The plan is certainly an admirable one and deserves to be handed down to each succeeding freshman class. Too often in the past these meetings have been characterized by the wildest confusion, and the elections have in consequence been reduced to the level of drawings in a lottery. By the method of yesterday, however, something like order was assured, and the freshmen were thus allowed to use at least some degree...