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...Alumni had been attracted to the ball-game; and the exercises were undisturbed by any noisy demonstrations, or by any attempts on the part of the Sophomores to obtain a share of the "equal feast." At the close of the dinner, Professor John Langdon Sibley was conducted to the head of the table to lead the singing of the seventy-eighth psalm, after which Dr. Samuel Eliot, the President of the Alumni Association, arose and spoke as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENCEMENT DINNER. | 7/3/1878 | See Source »

...Fourth-Mile-Run. - Entries : W. M. Conant, '79, T. H. Simmons, '80, R. Bacon, '80. Simmons and Bacon had a close race the entire distance. When Simmons was within six yards of the finish he turned his head to see how near was his opponent, threw himself out of his stride, and, tripping, was stunned by a fall within eight feet of the line. Bacon thus won the race...

Author: By G. H. D., | Title: FIELD MEETING OF THE H. A. A. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

...left by Dodge's catch of a hard fly. Mr. Dennison umpired very impartially, and was extremely satisfactory to both sides. The victory was mainly due to Latham's remarkable fielding, Nunn's fine batting and base running, and Alger's timely base hit. Harvard batted hard, but the head wind, and fine fielding of Wigton, Dodge, and Hunt lost several base-hits. Furman pitched very effectively; his delivery is very swift and hard to hit; towards the close of the game he was unable to do himself justice, owing to the swollen condition of Funkhouser's hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

...exposed to all the influences of such a state of society as that in which we live, is yet afraid of exposing himself to the influence of a few Greek and Latin verses, acts like the felon who begged to have an umbrella held over his head from Newgate to the gallows, because it was a drizzly morning, and he was apt to take cold." I don't suppose that any instructor is so absurd as to think that a student will be injured by reading in the class what he has just read outside in preparing the lesson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRUDERY. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

...said the Bell to one of the Pumps, "how did you get your head so fearfully bruised...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT THE BELL THINKS OF PRAYERS. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »