Word: localities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Although the play will not contain quite so many local hits as "The Flying Dutchman," it will probably have a great deal of song and dialogue concerning Cambridge and Boston. At present, it seems as if the best feature would be the music, which has a great deal of snap and go. The cast has not yet been definitely decided on, but it will be settled by the end of the week. The name of the play will be "Boscabello...
...held last night, the plans for the coming season were outlined. Practice will begin as soon as the links are in fit condition. Three matches a week will be played among the Harvard players themselves, and a team of twelve men will soon be chosen to play matches with local clubs. From these twelve will be chosen the six to represent Harvard in the Intercollegiate Tournament to be held in the first week of May, on the Ardsley links...
...game of ice hockey has been adopted this year in place of ice polo, primarily because Yale, Brown and most other local teams now play the Canadian game. The change has the advantage of allowing seven instead of five to play on the team, and of demanding a greater amount of team work. Four men, called forwards, rush the ball toward the opposite goal in accordance with the rule to keep on side and to make no forward passes. They can be in line or move one behind the other as the Brown team did in the game which they...
...evils of rings and bosses are in no sense local and temporary, but general and permanent. A boss is very hard to define. We usually know him when we see him, but to understand how we came to have bosses and what they are, we must first consider the parties in America today. The United States are now governed by two immense corporations, calling themselves the Republican and the Democratic parties. Each party, through control of the primaries by the bosses or rings, becomes dominated by cliques. For no candidates can be chosen at the primaries under boss rule except...
Interest in the game is steadily increasing here and the association has already secured the services of a coach. Negotiations are now in progress for a game with one or two local teams, and it is hoped that games may be arranged with Yale and several other college teams...