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I WAS very much surprised by the illiberal tone of a letter in your last paper, on the subject of lawn-tennis. Not only did the writer disapprove of the game, but he seemed to advocate violent measures for compelling those who like it to devote themselves to rowing instead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAWN TENNIS AGAIN. | 4/19/1878 | See Source »

We would also like to call attention to the grumblers, a class whose opinion on base-ball is usually of little worth; they are ever complaining of our defeats, taking it as a matter of course that we ought always to win, and never considering that the clubs who beat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/19/1878 | See Source »

ALLOW me a little space to expostulate, not illnaturedly I hope, on a kind of Athletics that seems to be gaining ground very fast at Harvard. I mean to say Lawn Tennis. There are now four clubs, and perhaps five, that have come into existence here this year. These clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAWN TENNIS-CLUBS. | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

WE print this week an article on Music at Harvard that expresses a feeling quite common (as we are well aware) among us here, - that the Glee Club would do well to confine itself to singing college songs, and that it should not attempt anything so difficult as a real...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

Shortly after, completing the eighty-ninth chapter, he fell in love with a maiden of West Hampton, and began to write poetry. In the files of the Hampton Gazette, preserved in the College library, one may find a large number of poems addressed to M. W., which flowed from his...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JEREMIAH SMITH. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

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