Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eleven, in adopting the plan of training the candidates for next year's team, which is described in another column, has made a departure from the methods that have prevailed heretofore, which, it seems to us, must bring forth good results next fall. Harvard opens so late in the autumn that the time for training the eleven is much shorter than it ought to be. Training in the winter and spring, therefore, calculates to develop muscles called into play in foot-ball, and will be of especial value to men who intend to try for the eleven next year...
...Cumnock will be on the lookout for everyone who can be made available in any way whatever. He has come to the conclusion that it is impossible to bring together a properly trained eleven in so short a time as is left after the opening of college in the autumn-only two months-and he has determined that the candidates for this year's eleven shall begin training at once...
...Dexter, '90, manager of the University Crew, who was injured while playing foot-ball in the autumn, has recovered and returned to college...
...Instruction and Government," and are placed among the annual appointments. The statement of the admission requirements has been modified by an insertion of a definition of the algebra requirement and by certain changes in the list of the books prescribed for English. The examinations for admission in the autumn are now placed at the beginning of the week in which college opens, instead of at its close, and a change is made in the order of the autumn examinations. In the statements concerning honors, that in regard to honors in natural history no longer demands summer, field or laboratory studies...
...Yale Athletic Association held last week, T. F. Bayard, Jr., '90, was elected president, and F. C. Walcott, '91, secretary and treasurer. The association has a good balance on hand, though the outlay for the past year has been heavy. Several attempts have been made to hold the regular autumn hare and hounds runs, but so far, the days appointed have turned out very wet and muddy, and it has been necessary to postpone them...