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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chance to test its strength with rival teams. The days that gave pleasant weather were well employed by practice on the field. It is almost a month, However, before the first league game with Brown, so that there is abundant time for improvement in play, and, if the already backward season does not still further retard the progress of the nine, we may hope to see gratifying results by that time. The tennis and bicycle seasons have fairly opened. The boat-house, Holmes and Jarvis will now be frequented daily by spectators and athletes. Jarvis is rapidly being...
Second round. - Page led off with a neat round arm blow in the side, which he followed up left and right on Lee's head. Page kept his wind very well indeed and continued to force the fighting with good success although Lee was not backward in returning and countered with good success...
...Friday and Monday. The same arguments that would urge men to try for the Glee Club apply also in the case of the Pierian. To all students who are musically inclined both these societies offer unsurpassable advantages for profit and pleasure combined. Freshmen, we must repeat, should not be backward about presenting themselves in these trials. There is no member of '86, we feel sure, who, if fairly competent, would not profit by membership. Certainly the trial is worth making...
...engage in the practice games. Let every man who has never played show himself on the field, and by his presence let those who have to do the practice know the college as a unit is thoroughly interested and alive to this department of athletics. Let '86 not be backward through a false sense of modesty, but work with the other classes, and she may be sure that if she has the talent it will be immediately recognized. If all will take hold with a will we trust that when the foot-ball season is through the victories...
...will be useful to harbor tourists, before their voyage, in telling them what to study and observe; on their voyage, as a constant and faithful director to the most interesting localities; and after the voyage, for reviving and refreshing its memories, and adding a new enjoyment to the backward view. The illustrations include 150 original pen-and-ink sketches made expressly for this book. The covers are admirable, the dies being from an artistic design by Ipsen...