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"Baggatiway" was the Indian name of this game - "a manly exercise," as an old traveller calls it. Lacrosse, "the cross," was the name given it by some Jesuit missionary whose religious zeal was far greater than his sense of the resemblance between things. It seems that when the term lacrosse...
The pamphlet containing a full account of the class - day exercises of the class of '79, Phillips Exeter Academy, published by Moses King, is now ready. It contains a list of the class officers; the class history, by A. A. Wyman; a prophecy, by B. B. Holmes; the poem, by...
It is, we think, within the province of the managers of the foot-ball club to take some steps towards abating what we may call the "mucker" nuisance on Holmes field. The presence of these little gamins of the street, at all times and upon all occasions, is becoming decidedly...
"It is hard to comprehend" says the Clipper, speaking of the crowds that always stand outside the fence at Harvard, "why the different athletic associations allow so much money to slip from their hands, which could be expended upon the grounds and for expenses. It would be an easy matter...
Last Thursday afternoon I started out to Holmes field expecting to play tennis. When I came to look for my net in the Society building, where I generally leave it, I found that it was gone. I looked vainly over all parts of the building in the hope that some...