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In our New England climate a long-continued thaw in the middle of February means, as our ancestors used to say, that the "back of the winter is broken." Therefore, although we shall have probably several more cold snaps before the spring really opens, the cold waves will not last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/18/1887 | See Source »

Old graduates who witnessed the crowds on Holmes field last spring at the occasion of the Yale and Princeton games, exclaimed enthusiastically, "This is like the old games with the Lowells in '67!" And probably enthusiasm over the nine of a year ago was not any greater, if as great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twenty Years of Harvard Base-Ball. | 2/14/1887 | See Source »

It may be of interest to the college at large to learn the method of training adopted by the Mott Haven team. The team as a whole has been doing good work during the past month, perhaps better than ever before. Every day, soon after four o'clock, the running...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mott Haven Tream. | 2/11/1887 | See Source »

When the college was founded daily services were held morning and evening in the tutor's room, where "that Freshman class of one," of which Dr. Holmes tells us, recited its little lessons and also was made to bend beneath the birch. But as the college grew, and more ample...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morning Prayers. | 2/4/1887 | See Source »

The chairman then read other apologies for non-attendance, among which were letters from Presidents E. G. Robinson of Brown University, Julius H. Seeyle of Amherst, Franklin Carter of Williams, Chief Justice Morton, Hon. O. W. Holmes, Jr., John Fisk, Rev. Phillips Brooks, Senator Dawes, Senator Evarts and Hon. Chauncey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Alumni Reunion. | 2/4/1887 | See Source »

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