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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...places his kicks and works well with the ends. Reid, however, has shown steady improvement in this department of the game, and Sawin, who has fallen off, however, since the middle of the season, can be called on to punt in emergencies. The principal weakness of the team at present is fumbling kicks--a weakness which gave the Indians their touchdown. Sawin, who is strong on catching punts, plays in the backfield with Daly, and together they are sure to clip off many of Pennsylvania's kicks...
...phrase used by Governor Bowdoin, who founded the prizes in 1790), and that it shall be appropriate for treatment in literary form. The subjects must be approved in advance, as conforming to these conditions, by the chairman of the standing committee of the Faculty on Bowdoin Prizes. The present chairman of that committee is Professor Taussig...
...Dana will deliver short addresses tonight at the opening of the annual business meeting of the Civil Service Reform Club, to be held in Sever 11 at 7.30 o'clock. Professor Hart will speak on the historical features of civil service reform in this country and on the present young man's interest in the work; Mr. Lowell, who has just returned from England after a year spent in the study of the English colonial system, will speak on the English methods and experiences; and Mr. Dana will tell about the actual machinery of the work in this country...
This evening Professor Macvane will repeat, by special request, the lecture which he delivered last week on "England and the Transvaal." Beginning with an account of the past relations of the English and the Dutch colonists in South Africa, Professor Macvane will show the present condition of politics and society there, and explain the causes which have led up to the present war. The lecture will be delivered in the Fogg Art Museum at eight o'clock...
...been asked to announce that the Harvard Club of Philadelphia will hold an informal smoker at the University Club, 1510 Walnut street, on the evening before the Harvard-Pennsylvania football game. All Harvard men who may be in the city at that time are cordially invited to be present. It is hoped that members of the team and prominent coaches will attend...