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...which the Harvard eleven is to play this afternoon is said to have an exceptionally strong rush line, although in kicking and general play the team is somewhat weak. The Chronicle claims that it is a better eleven than that of two year's ago. between which and the famous Harvard eleven of '82 there was so close a contest on the Boston grounds, as will be remembered by many. We shall certainly expect to see a well contested game this afternoon...
...Baker Kendall scored a touchdown for Harvard, but the try-for-goal was a failure. The inning closed with the score 7 to 6 in Harvard's favor, exactly the same as the final score last year, and Harvard began to feel victory near at hand. Moffat's famous kicking had not as yet been seen and so was not reckoned on, but the so and three quarters was nothing but a contest between the phenomenal kicking of this brilliant half-back and the dogged resistance of our eleven. Moreover the kicking won. Every time Moffat got within thirty yards...
...appearance. During the days of its prosperity the society held meetings at stated intervals at which poems and orations were delivered, In this way it soon acquired a literary reputation which, however, was short-lived. Some of the poems were considered of sufficient merit to be published. The most famous one is the "Rebelliad" which was written by a Doctor Pierce in 1819 and first published...
...Renshaw, the brother of the elder and more famous Renshaw. has injured his wrist and ankle so badly that he will not play tennis again for a year...
Speaking of the choir of Magdalen College Mr. Collier says: "The two most famous-and deservedly famous-choirs in the world are the Bach choir at Leipsic and the choir of the Magdalen Chapel at Oxford. I had often heard the Bach choir and had never had an opportunity of hearing the Magdalen choir, or the "Maudlin" choir, as the name is always pronounced in England. I never heard in the Leipsic choir any such marvelously sweet and true voices as those that compose the Oxford choir. The choir is richly endowed, and so it may draw from...