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...weather comes with all its temptations for out-door exercise we are reminded still more forcibly of this lack of room. The year before Holmes field was altered by the preparations for building the new Jefferson Laboratory, the college grounds devoted to recreation were as follows: Jarvis field, the major part of which was used exclusively for base ball, the remainder being divided into tennis courts, from a dozen to twenty in number; Holmes field divided thus, a large field used for foot-ball in autumn and by the freshman nine in spring, smaller fields of poor land devoted...
...Major J. F. Huntington met an audience last evening as crowded and attentive as those which have listened to the previous lecturers in the Civil War course...
...towards his own flank. Here a desperate and important struggle took place: The position in question, Hazel Grove, was occupied by some Union batteries which held the enemy in check while the crowd of fugitives from Howard's corps rushed through the line of guns to the rear. Major Huntington was himself present and in command of these batteries, and it was due to their gallant stand that the army was not totally demoralized on that day. This check at Hazel Grove compelled the confederates to wait till it was too dark for further advance that evening...
...Major J. F. Huntington lectures this evening under the auspices of the Harvard Historical Society, on "Chancellorsville," in Sever...
Harvard Historical Society. Chancellorsville, April, 1863. Major J. F. Huntington. Sever...