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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...institution as old as "Bloody Monday Night" has certainly much to commend it, much to assure its continuation on a firm basis. It is undoubtedly desirable that some demonstrations of this kind should be made during a college course. They add both zest and tone to student life so long as they are kept within proper bounds and not characterized by disgusting abuses, but with them unfortunately these abuses are apt to come. Yearly, to be sure, they grow less and less, and this certainly is progress in the right direction. What is desirable now is that they should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/30/1889 | See Source »

...open fire-place. The rowing tank is placed in the left wing and is designed after the one recently arranged. A large dressing room lined with lockers leads off the front of the rowing room. The right wing is occupied by a base ball cage, 80 feet long by 30 feet wide, and leading off from this is another dressing room also lined with lockers. Back of the hall on the right of the fire-places are two "Fives Courts," and a stairway leading to a large meeting room for the various athletic societies. One side of this is also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Athletic Improvements. | 9/30/1889 | See Source »

...left to Ninety-three the duty of securing the adoption and enforcerent of these resolutions, and surely a matter of such considerable importance must not at this time be neglected. Freshman intercollegiate contests have too often been managed on the basis of sharp dealing, as those who have been long in college can testify; and it is high time that active measures should be taken to secure fair play to all concerned. Surely it were better that freshman athletics be entirely abolished than that the abuses which have at times characterized them be for one moment continued. We look...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/27/1889 | See Source »

...balls, stole second, took third on Linn's sacrifice and home on Howland's. This was Harvard's only run. Howland got first on the attempt to put Dean out at the plate, but was doubled up in failling to get back to first base after Willard's long fly to right field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell, 4; Harvard, 1. | 6/18/1889 | See Source »

...university, at the beginning of the new college year, a complete change will be made in the system of janitors who have charge of the college buildings. These officers fully appreciate the many inconveniences to which those who live in college rooms have been obliged to submit for so long a time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Janitor System. | 6/18/1889 | See Source »

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