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Fourth, That each club, in order to have its claims to the championship considered, must have played at least one-half of the number of games in the series with each member of the League, i. e. if the series consists of three games, Harvard must have played at least two games with each of the other clubs...
...blowing hard. Harvard kicked off, and the sides were so much more evenly matched than in the previous game, that the ball was kept for the most part in the middle of the ground. Before the end of the first half-hour, however, Winsor kicked a goal, - the only one scored during the game. In the last half, Britannia had only fourteen men, as P. S. Ross had been severely hurt. They did their utmost to force the ball to Harvard's goal, but in vain, and the victory rested with us. Messrs. Bacon, Cushing, Nickerson, Manning, and Howe were...
...Monday several inches of snow covered the ground, but the game with McGill was commenced, and the first inning resulted in our favor, - one goal and a touchdown to nothing. Owing to the snow and cold, it was then mutually agreed by the captains not to play the second inning, but to call the game drawn. Our men reached home Tuesday morning, having been most cordially received and entertained while on their trip...
...essentially, a city club, with such modifications as life at the University calls for; its active membership is consequently very large, - twelve hundred or more, - about one-half of the undergraduates; it is a club for the whole University, open to men who have just matriculated as well as to those who have been up for several years, and to former members who happen to be in Oxford; while strangers may be "put down" for a month by any undergraduate or graduate member...
...club-house is a comfortable, well-built brick building, situated in as central a position as possible with regard to the various colleges. In the main hall are bulletin-boards for various notices and announcements, one for the latest telegrams, a letter-rack for letters addressed to the club, and such conveniences. Opening out of this are the superintendent's office, the reading-room, where all the newspapers and magazines may be found, another reading-room, and the writing-room. Here are to be found all sorts of directories, post-office guides, c letters for abroad placed in the boxes...