Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hurdle race, 19 seconds; two-mile bicycle, 7 minutes 10 seconds. If convenient, there will be a trial of the different men on Saturday, May 22, one week before the inter-collegiate meeting. Come, turn out, train hard, and give our own records, at least, a hard pull.- Williams Fortnight...
...Williams Fortnight objects to the statement made by the CRIMSON that the admission of the Williams nine into the Inter-collegiate Base-ball Association increased Harvard's chances for the pennant...
Should the present propitious weather continue, the class races will be unusually interesting, as the crews will have had a fortnight's more practice than last year...
Hereafter, daily themes in English V may be replaced by longer articles handed in at intervals of not more than a fortnight, and endorsed with the dates on which work has been done on them...
...Williams Fortnight very justly and creditably takes exception to the disparaging remarks made by Mr. Howells in Harper's Monthly on "amateur rhymsters." Mr. Howell's remarks probably affect men in college more than others, for most "amateur rhymsters" are usually college men also. The work of amateurs in the poetic art he would discourage by means of "most brutal" criticism. Why amateur verse should receive brutality any more than the most professional verse that has ever been written, we find it hard to see. On the contrary, we think that young poets should have encouragement, not discouragement. If poetry...