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...eighth annual spring games, open to amateurs, will be held on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 30, 1877 (Decoration Day), for which entries will close Saturday...
...open to teams of four men each from any recognized athletic, rowing, or college association, two substitutes allowed...
...amateur is any person who has never competed in an open competition, or for a stake, or for public money, or for admission money, or with professionals for a prize, public money, or admission money; nor has ever, at any period of his life, taught or assisted in the pursuit of athletic exercises as a means of livelihood. No communication will receive attention unless addressed to the Club box; and all persons are particularly requested not to call upon the officers of the Club at their places of business...
...hall before this early hour, either breakfast or chapel must be sacrificed. A modifying suggestion to extend the breakfast hour from seven to half past eight has been made. This plan, which is certainly better than the first, will perhaps be acceptable to many. But this course is also open to objections, since for all those who would get breakfast after prayers (and this number would perhaps represent the majority) there would be left only the second choice, the picked bone. The first plan has positive faults, the second only negative virtues...
...insufficiency of Lyceum Hall for such a piece. In response to an encore he sang Millard's "Grand Old Ocean" in a manner which can only be imagined by those who have heard him before, and which we fear to attempt to describe lest we be accused of too open adulation. Mr. Morse's two songs, "Embarrassment," by Abt, and, in response to an encore, J. K. Paine's "Matin Song," were sung with clearness, sweetness, and at times true pathos, though a captious critic would have desired to see a little more life and energy...