Word: york
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard has made great preparations to observe the total eclipse of the sun on Jan. 1. 1889, and for that purpose has already sent a great deal of apparatus to California. The eclipse will be visible no further east than New York state, and there only at sunset, but the line of the centre of the eclipse will pass just to the north of San Francisco...
...freshmen, who were greatly weakened by the absence of some of their best men, were easily defeated by the juniors. Score, 28 to 0. Beside these teams there was a team composed of the best players at Columbia; they had games with Athletic Clubs' elevens of New York, and played a very strong game, winning generally...
...lecture feature promises to be more important this year than ever before. The Dwight course was begun last Monday, the lecturer being the well-known novelist, George W. Cable. Among the other appointments for this course are Bishop Potter, Rev. A. F. Shauffer, Dr. Wm. M. Taylor, of New York, and Prof. Wm. M. Sloan, of Princeton. The subjects in this course are mainly on religious topics. The Phi Beta Kappa course will be on more general topics. The lectures will be given by Rev. T. T. Munger. Professors Arthur Hadley, W. F. Knapp, A. M. Wheeler, Mark Bailey...
...glee and banjo clubs some time ago asked permission of the committee of the faculty on entertainments for permission to make arrangements for a western tour during the Christmas recess. It was proposed to visit New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago. The committee declined to grant the requested permission except as to New York. Invitations having recently been received from the Harvard Clubs in the above mentioned cities asking that the clubs give concerts under their auspices, it was determined to ask the committee to reconsider its decision. The committee again declined, but expressed a willingness to bring...
...credit of about $1250. The only item in its account to which it is necessary to especially refer is one of the bills for medical attendance. This is a bill which was presented to a member of the team who had been seriously injured, for accompanying him to New York, where he went towards the end of his convalescence to witness the game on Thanksgiving day. The member of the team doubtless understood that the surgeon accompanied him out of friendship and a desire to see the game, in which he was personally interested. The surgeon chose to construe...