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...decide the date of a freshman game between Harvard and Yale is always a difficult matter, because one of the few dates remaining after the university schedule has been made must be the one chosen. Knowing this, the freshmen managers ought to select the date which offers the fewest objections. To the dates proposed by Yale, '88, there have been, it seems to us, sufficient objections submitted by our freshman, Yale, '88 objects to playing on Thanksgiving for good reasons, but not a single objection has been offered by them to the 29th. As Harvard, '88, is forbidden by faculty...
This letter gives no reasons for the statements made and makes no objection to any other date. But for Harvard, the Athletic regulations were the only trouble which prevented them from complying with Yale's demand. Rule 5 says that no game shall be played out of Cambridge except on Saturday; and as the committee on athletics have already broken it once this fall in favor of the freshmen, they refused to do so again on that very account. This state of affairs was quickly made known to the Yale manager, who wrote that the class had voted...
...Massachusetts Historical Society, Mr. Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., spoke of the inscription on the base of John Harvard's statue, reading "John Harvard, founder, 1638," which gives the impression that this denotes the year in which our college was founded. As considerable comment has been caused by the date on the inscription, Mr. Wintrop's remarks will be of general interest...
...official catalogues of the university, he said, declare that its natal year was 1636, and this date has been recognized as the true one by successive historians of the college and of New England; and in 1836 the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of this institution was commemorated. It was during the governorship of Sir Henry Vane, and during his auspices, that the college was instituted by the Massachusetts Assembly, which it has been said, was the first body by which the people through their representatives, ever gave their own money to found a place of education. John Harvard...
...Princeton team arrived in Boston last night on the 9 P. M. Train, N. Y. and N. E. R. R., and put up at the Revere House. The team is without the services of Adams, their large centre rush, who has played in all the games up to date. The team will be composed of the following men, Rushers: H. Hodge Irvine, Bird, [captain], Griffith, Harris, Wanamaker, Decamp. Quarter back: R. Hodge. Half backs, Baker, Lamar: Back, Moffatt. Substitutes: Toler, Edwards and Blair...