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THE origin of football seems to be the old "rushes" between the Sophomores and Freshmen. The Delta (the name given to the space now occupied by Memorial Hall) was the scene of those terrible contests which so characterized the opening life of the Freshmen. The game - for game they called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHORT HISTORY OF FOOTBALL AT HARVARD. | 10/14/1881 | See Source »

"GOOD enough!" I inelegantly exclaimed as I read Jack's letter, in which he said he would come down the next day and stay a week with me; and I forthwith bounced out on the piazza and announced the news to my two sisters, three cousins, and the other young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLIGHTLY THE WRONG MAN. | 10/14/1881 | See Source »

"Oh! did n't you go? You don't know what you missed. 'T was the most thrilling sight I ever saw. I think it was the foreman of one of the companies, - anyway there was a child left by oversight in the fourth story of the building, and this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLIGHTLY THE WRONG MAN. | 10/14/1881 | See Source »

"The old divine looked at his wife, and looked at Jack, and looked at himself, and finally said, 'Well! I declare;' and the last thing Jack and I heard as we went down the front steps was, 'Well, I declare!'

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLIGHTLY THE WRONG MAN. | 10/14/1881 | See Source »

The next morning I drove down to the station to meet him. I was not positive that he would be on that train, accordingly I was not greatly disappointed at not finding him.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLIGHTLY THE WRONG MAN. | 10/14/1881 | See Source »