Word: making
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman foot-ball game with Yale was given up, as Yale alleged she was unable to make up a team...
...attempt ought to be made to revive some little kindly feeling among classmates. With our present large classes, we can make comparatively few friends; but we might at least make some real friends, - men in whom we shall take an interest all our lives, and not content ourselves with the acquaintances, mostly of chance or policy, to whom the name friends is often falsely applied, and be on terms of suppressed warfare with every one else. I don't ask Doggy, who, I see, is looking shocked, to be intimate with Grinder, but merely not to treat all except...
This explanation I willingly make, and I trust that it will be satisfactory. I must say, however, that the Advocate's remarks about my probable age, ability, and experience, though exceedingly sarcastic and venomous, have done little towards showing that the opinions advanced in my last letter are wrong. They are the opinions, not merely of the writer, but of some of the ablest men in the class; and if these men do not accept the editorial decisions of the Advocate, they certainly have a right to state their own views...
This indignation would be more in place if Harvard had any intention of rowing every year with Cornell and Columbia. This she has not at present, but there are circumstances which make it desirable that we should row them this year. Harvard has no desire to do anything to interfere with the annual race with Yale...
...will walk one mile in 7 min. 40 sec. or better, or to any man who can beat the best time on record in this college for a run of three miles. These offers to remain open until the end of next June. Any man intending to make one of these trials to give ten days' notice to the Vice-President of the H. A. A. These offers are made solely to induce men to train, as without being in top condition they cannot hope to equal these times...