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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...organization of a second lacrosse team at the college is significant of the growing interest at Harvard in this pleasant sport. To those who are not patient of the close training required in other sports, or who have lacked any previous practice before coming to college, lacrosse offers an excellent opportunity for entering into a lively and interesting game. Their success of last year seems to have had a very favorable effect upon the lacrosse men. May they put forth even greater efforts this year and secure an even greater success...
...have been the centre of interest and speculation ever since the winter meetings. Today we are to witness the result of over two months' work. The excitement usually attending the event will probably not be as great as that of previous years because the struggle will not be as close. The seniors are regarded as having the best stroke and the advantages of longer training and more experience. The juniors are in a dilemma, their stroke, Mr. Perin, having been ill. Yet their strength, as a crew, is said by many to be the greatest. For the sophomores little...
Yesterday afternoon the second Harvard lacrosse team beat the Andover team by a score of one goal to nothing. Two goals were fairly made but only one counted on account of a doubt. The playing was close, as the Andover team were in many cases superior runners. The Harvards were handsomely treated by the home team. The finest playing was done on our side by Rueter and Walsh. Marquand acted as referee. Next week the team will probably play two games, both in Cambridge...
Italian 2 will finish "La Gerusalemme Liberata" before the close of the term, but will not take up anything else...
...then attending it. For several years, and more especially since the new system of instruction has been carried into effect, the need of the school for a new building has been most apparent. The shelves of the library have been overcrowded with books, the lecture rooms are small and close, while the reading room cannot begin to accommodate the number desiring to use it. The corporation in vain asked for funds, and urged the necessity of a new building, paid in January, 1881, the corporation of Harvard College accepted the gift of $100,000 to build a new law school...