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...day for the Beacon Cup races, originally appointed, was May 31; but as the second game between Harvard and Yale, on Jarvis Field, is fixed for the same day, the races are postponed until June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

...allowed to take Sheffield S. S. Freshman also. Our Academic Freshman Nine have sent a second challenge, offering to play against their University Freshman Nine on any grounds in Massachusetts or Connecticut, and giving them a liberal share of gate-money if they will play on the 17th. This day is not convenient for Yale, and, after a great consumption of the electrical fluid, no definite answer has at present been obtained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

...Charley played together late and early every day." They appear to have played particularly hard, for, growing tired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

...day there came a letter, - ah ! I knew the writing well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

...different from people in the last century, who perused their Clarissa Harlowe, Rape of the Lock, Pilgrim's Progress, and Shakespeare till they almost knew them by heart, and thoroughly understood and appreciated much that was in them! Would it not be better if we, in our day, could only bring ourselves to give up the one thousand and one others, and try to get some idea of the real spirit of Carlyle, Thackeray, Tennyson, or some great writer, till we felt ourselves equal to the study of the greatest, - Shakespeare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUPERFICIAL KNOWLEDGE. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »