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...offer our sincere and hearty congratulations to the members of the freshman nine on their glorious victory over Yale on Saturday. They have won both games of the series, and have kept the Yale freshmen off the famous "fence." The college appreciates their victory, and is proud of them. Especially creditable is this victory from the fact that the nine played on strange grounds - which is always more or less trying - and had not such strong support from their classmates as did their adversaries, that is, in point of numbers; for certainly they cannot complain of indifference or lack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/14/1886 | See Source »

...undoubtedly work hard and zealously to make this occasion - the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Harvard - a memorable one in the annals of the present undergraduates. This is a chance which will come to us but once, so let us seize it and have a glorious celebration in every sense of the word. We should count ourselves very lucky in being able to take part in the quarter-millennial anniversary of our Alma Mater. We trust that the newly elected committee will formulate some plan without delay, and we have perfect confidence in their ability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/5/1886 | See Source »

...glorious victory remembered! The '89 Technology tug-of-war team have been presented with silver cups to commemorate their victory over '88 at their winter meeting: happy freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/22/1886 | See Source »

...would be in the worst possible taste for them to do anything that would lower the value in the least, there is no reason why they should not only defeat some of the surrounding high schools, but also keep the Yale freshmen from their doubtless uncomfortable but nevertheless glorious place on the fence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/10/1886 | See Source »

...thieves. But is it true? Can any one justly say that student feeling at Harvard is distinctly irreligious? Are we, simply because we are Harvard students, and that is for the most part the argument advanced, hardened followers of Mammon? The writer has frequently heard that glorious gray-haired fable of the Harvard infidel, but he never met the unbeliever but once. The young atheist in question laughed at Christianity and boasted that Buddhism even was a more perfect faith. An older companion proved by three questions that the would-be Buddhist knew nothing of either religion, and that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Religion. | 1/20/1886 | See Source »

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