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...rumored that certain members of the class of '86, have decided to form a league of "Total Abstinence - from recitations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 11/16/1882 | See Source »

...they expect to win the cup from the Cambridge boys they must make a big reform. This some of the leaders of the team propose to effect. Now that the Union Athletic Club remains merely as an empty name, the lacrosse men propose to come out and form an independent organization. An instance of the favor which the game is meeting at Harvard was the gathering of some thirty freshmen this week to consider the advisability of forming a freshman team. Much interest was manifested, and it was decided to go to work at once. They will probably arrange games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/13/1882 | See Source »

...That form of entertainment known as a six days' go-as-you-please pedestrian match has died a natural death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 11/11/1882 | See Source »

...scratch races last Saturday morning, both in style of rowing and in numbers, has awakened an interest in their welfare. Although it is too early to prophesy much, still a glance at the candidates will show that there exists fine material from which hard work and strict attention may form an excellent eight. The men, however, must be cautioned that the strictest regularity in coming to the gymnasium is necessary; it will never do for a man to present himself for a day or two and then be absent for the rest of the week. The captain complains of this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FRESHMAN CREW. | 11/3/1882 | See Source »

...small meridian photometer. During three years this instrument has been used in measuring the light of all the stars visible to the naked eye. There have been nearly a hundred thousand of these measurements, being the largest piece of photometric work ever accomplished. A large instrument of the same form has been constructed, and, with it, it is proposed to examine and determine the light of some nine thousand stars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD OBSERVATORY. | 11/2/1882 | See Source »