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...Commons, and party spirit runs high in the universities. According to the Oxford Review, which speaks mainly on the subject, the two members of the university will surely be Conservative. Nevertheless, a rather amusing fight is going on. The various debating societies are now offering resolutions in support of Lord Salisbury's ministry, and the undergraduate politicians are exercising their oratorical powers in mimic Parliamentary contests. One man, who signs himself "Conservative," writes in the Review a vigorous appeal to all holders of sound political opinions to try to influence by direct arguments the wayward followers of the Liberal ministry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Politics at English Universities. | 12/10/1885 | See Source »

...until the year of our Lord 1999 that the Faculty of Harvard College considered the game of foot-ball sufficiently pruned of its objectionable features to warrant them in giving permission to the students to engage in inter collegiate contests. A description of the Yale-Harvard game of 1999 will give a good idea of the manner of playing the game in that year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot Ball. | 11/27/1885 | See Source »

...sojourn in this country and delivered her students a short informal address, tinctured by none of that formalism and stiffness which the uninformed are liable to attribute to greatness, but marked by that geniality and whole heartedness which is so distinctively an English characteristic. Canon Farrar, Matthew Arnold, and Lord Coleridge, all have spoken from the college pulpit, and each has charmed with his own individuality yet through each address ran a strong exhortation, an appeal fervent and ringing for higher aims and loftier aspirations and the pursuance of that ambition which is the foundation, the fundamental principal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 11/6/1885 | See Source »

...spectators, and hearty applause greeted many of the fine plays that were made. Appended is the score: Singles. Second round (continued from Monday) H. M. Sears vs. Tailer, 6-3, 5-6, 10-8; Federhen vs. Hamlin, 6-3, 5-6, 6-2. Third round. H. M. Sears vs. Lord, 6-5, 6-0; P. S. Sears vs. H. M. Sears, 6-5, 6-4. Doubles. First round. Kuhn and Keep vs. Lord and Snow, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. Second round. Hamlin and Lee vs. Tailer and Morgan, 4-6, 6-5, 8-6; Kuhn and Keep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Tournament. | 10/28/1885 | See Source »

Yesterday was the first day of the tennis tournament, and as the day was perfect for the game quite a large number of sets were played. The second round of singles was played, and the doubles were begun. The singles resulted as follows: First round, Lord vs. Keep, 6-3, 6-1; Bowen vs. Reynolds, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3; Tailer vs. Frost, 6-1, 6-0; H. M. Sears vs. Brewer, 6-3, 6-2; P. S. Sears vs. Mills, 6-1, 6-1; Kuhn vs. Tilton, 6-1, 6-1; Hallowell vs. Mackay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Tournament. | 10/27/1885 | See Source »

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