Word: minor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...programme for the third rehearsal and concert of the Boston Symphony is as follows: Overture, Barber of Bagdad, by Peter Cornelius, which has recently been given at the Worcester musical festival, but has not been performed in Boston before; concerto for pianoforte in E minor, by Chopin, in which Mme. Etelka Utasse will be soloist; and Mendelssohn's "Scotch" symphony, No. 3, in A minor...
...were more or less weak in most of these events last year; we are still weaker this. The number of hurdle racers, too, is smaller than it should be. There is a good deal of knack in this sort of racing, and speed is a somewhat minor consideration. Thus it gives those lacking this latter quality a fine chance to put in good and effective work. In our flat races we stand as we did last year; we have only lost one "first-place" man from these events, and many new and promising men are showing up. There is still...
Instead of frankly following up the principle of action indicated by the admitted evils, and expressed in the report of the large majority of its committee, they have adopted the minority report, but with modifications which make it even more unpalatable to the undergraduates. They recommend confining the contests to university teams and virtually to New England colleges, saying that such contests "should take place only in Cambridge, New Haven, and such other New England city or town as the committee on athletics may from time to time designate." Moreover, the time for holding them should be only Saturdays...
...Board of Overseers have at last taken action upon the majority and minority reports made by the Committee. Their action seems to us in the highest degree narrow-minded, and marks a strong check to the liberal tendency which should prevail in a great university like Harvard. Their recommendation amounts, in substance, to simply this: To prohibit all freshman intercollegiate contests in baseball, football, rowing and lacrosse; to allow none but University teams to engage in intercollegiate contests, and those only with Yale and minor New England college, thus barring out Columbia, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and others...
...field, and included four 6's, twenty-one 4's, six 3's, fifty-eight 2's, and one hundred and fifty-eight singles-the last item proving that the bowling was not so very weak. This score has only been exceeded four times, and then in minor matches with only eleven in the field. Dr. Grace was born July 18, 1848, near Bristol, Eng., and has been playing in first-class matches since...