Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday morning, just before the team was photographed, Captain Brown announced that he could not play any more this spring, as he had been chosen to be one of the Gentlemen of Philadelphia who go to England this summer. A. C. Garrett, '89, was unanimosly elected captian for the rest of the year. Mr. Garrett was captain of the eleven at Haverford college in '86, where he graduated the same year He is a member of the Germantown Cricket club, and two or three years since, in a match between Germantown and Young America, when the former made the largest...
There is still seven hundred dollars of subscriptions which are unpaid. If the gentlemen who subscribed this would keep their promises, the crew would not now be in danger of reaching New London a day or two before the race...
...unnamed New Englander has given $100,000 to which Japanese gentlemen have added $70,000 to found a Christian university in Japan...
...cricket team leaves today for its first championship match, not, to be sure, with the brightest prospect of success. Harvard can scarcely hope to defeat an eleven containing five or six of the Gentlemen of Philadelphia team which is to visit England next summer; but the college will expect a good showing even against these odds. The eleven has been improving lately, and with sharp fielding and steady work ought at least to keep down the runs. Cricket has taken a good start this year, and more interest has been shown in it than in former years. The eleven ought...
Such offences against decency cannot be too severely censured. The Newark men behaved like gentlemen and were entitled to be treated as gentlemen. When so much has been said of the danger of associating with professionals, it is humiliating that the first complaint must be made against college men. The offenses yesterday it is to be presumed, were not intentional but were due to thoughtlessness and the excitement of the close contest. Under such circumstances, if an outlet of pent-up enthusiasm is absolutely necessary it can always be found in cheering the good plays instead of in hooting...