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...attempt will soon be made to have the Mott Haven, Oelrichs, and Westchester cups photographed by Pach...
...election of a captain for the foot-ball eleven for the year '86-87 shows that the 'varsity team is still alive and that an earnest attempt will be made to pursuade the faculty to allow Harvard to be represented next year. The Yale Princeton game was so satisfactory that former arguments against rough playing are nugatory. Good work this fall has kept the foot-ball men in good trim, and although '86 will be greatly missed, we have no doubt that the new captain will form a worthy 'varsity team...
...large assembly room of that building was used for the concert; it seats two thousand people and was filled almost to overflowing. A mighty sounding of "Ah!" ensued upon the arrival of the players, and soon all was in readiness for an appearance. It would be unwise to attempt a criticism of the rendering of the programme, for the scientific analysis by the CRIMSON'S musical editor next Thursday would make a sort of ante facto chestnut of this article. Suffice it to say that the concert was an entire success. The Portland audience was undeniably a very cold...
...increased to forty-three, and all who have heard them play say that the performance is better than it has ever been before. All the instruments necessary for the production of a symphony concert are represented, and we may hope that at no distant time the sodality will attempt to rival the symphony concerts which are now so popular with the students. At present, however, the players limit themselves to less difficult performances...
...There does not appear to be any likelihood of a contest for the two seats which, despite the parricidal attempt of Professor Bryce, are still allotted to the University of Oxford. The position of Sir J. Mowbray and Mr. Talbot is the most enviable that can be imagined. Not to be dictated to by a Caucus or Association, not to be compelled to make election speeches, or submit to unlimited 'heckling,' not to have to canvass the illiterate voter or the impracticable crotcheteer, not to have to open charitable bazaars, or preside at philanthropic meetings; in short to possess...