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...inter-collegiate sports this year, in the "Mott Haven" contests, we intend putting our best foot forward ; and if we do not obtain the cup it will not be for lack of trying. Our gymnasium presents a very animated scene, and our athletes are beginning to put in some hard work. The athletic accounts in the HERALD have been read with much interest lately, and those who were wont to talk of "waggling Harvard at Mott Haven" have toned down considerably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLUMBIA. | 4/13/1882 | See Source »

...committee for the various annual celebrations have been appointed, and are now hard at work - the seniors preparing for class-day and the sophomores for their triumph. The juniors will have no celebration this year, as the class is, unfortunately, broken up by factional strife...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLUMBIA. | 4/13/1882 | See Source »

EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : I fully agree with your correspondent on the subject of the freshman nine, and also have a word of advice to offer. It is about the selection of the umpire. We all know how hard it is to get an unprejudiced umpire. Any man who takes this position is liable to favor one side or the other, even if he is not personally interested. Often a decision of the umpire wins of loses the game. It is, therefore, of the greatest importance to the freshman nine that they get an umpire in their Yale games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/13/1882 | See Source »

...Heavy Weight Tug-of-War two teams were entered - that of the Jamaica Plain Athletic Association and the Institute team. The Jamaica Plain team, although a middle weight team, succeeded in winning after a hard struggle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ATHLETIC MEETING. | 4/3/1882 | See Source »

...that by decree of the faculty the dangerous experiment of a chess club - think of it, a chess club - about to be started there, has been nipped in the bud. What with corner drug-stores, chess clubs and the like, the way of virtue at Oberlin is truly a hard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/28/1882 | See Source »