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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dinner to the victorious Freshman football team will be held this evening at the Varsity club at 6.30 o'clock. The money has been subscribed by graduates and the whole affair will be informal. Ordinary every-day dress will be worn. The speakers will be A. A. Gleason '86, W. F. Garcelon L. '95, L. Withington, Jr., '11, captain-elect of the University football team, G. F. Waterbury '10 coach of the Freshman team, and R. P. Lewis '13, captain of the team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dinner to 1913 Football Team | 12/16/1909 | See Source »

There will be a smoker for members of the class of 1909, in the University and vicinity, in the Assembly Room of the Union this evening at 9 o'clock. The 1909 class committee, composed of R. M. Middlemass, W. M. Rand, and J. M. Groton, is arranging the affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1909 Class Smoker in Union at 9 | 11/18/1909 | See Source »

...were held on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 30. The graduate eight defeated Yale in a half-mile race by a length and a half in 2 minutes, 25 seconds, making the fourth successive win in this event for Harvard. Unfortunately the race for freshman fours was a farcical affair as Yale had only three men to fill her boat, the fourth man being used in her freshman eight. The distance was cut down from a mile to a half-mile course, both crews rowing without a bow oar. Harvard won in 2 minutes, 48 seconds, a scant three-quarters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CREWS VICTORIOUS | 9/28/1909 | See Source »

...College treats the affair with seeming unconcern, but the real kicking comes from the officers of the Athletic Association, who know the facts. While willing to concede great liberty to the major teams in the matter of medical attendance, training-tables, expensive outfit and "H" sweaters, they are averse to unbending to the extent of dinners, theatre-parties, pictures, and like unessential. Further, there is really no reason why $5 sweaters should be dealt out wholesale to members of class teams winning their numerals,--teams which play three or four games at the most. Entirely aside from this, there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPENDITURES FOR ATHLETICS. | 6/15/1909 | See Source »

...Senior picnic, which comes on next Tuesday, and so is not at all far off. The Senior picnic has always since the scheme of having one first started been an expedition to which everyone has gone, and which none have ever regretted going to. It is not a stiff affair and the only chance of its being so this year is that the members of 1909 are too uninterested and lax to go. It seems to me that this is a great mistake and a great pity; for the committee have done everything to make it attractive and want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications | 5/26/1909 | See Source »

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