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...fact that 400 Harvard students are taking boxing lessons would seem to indicate that these young men will soon be all ready to follow the advice of the commencement day crator, and "go forth prepared to battle with the world." Perhaps it would be just as well for them to dispense with the gloves.- Herald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/30/1888 | See Source »

...responsibility upon the students themselves, we respectfully urge the Faculty to abolish the restriction which prevents the college nine from playing with other than amateur clubs, leaving to the undergraduate managers and the athletic committee of the Faculty the settlement of such limitations of this privilege as may seem advisable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petition of the Alumni to the Faculty. | 3/30/1888 | See Source »

After the acceptance of the treasurer's report, the president made a few remarks, in which he stated that there was at present no good reason to suppose that a small dividend would not be paid at the end of the year, although it might seem to the management best to increase with this money the present small capital of the society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meeting of the Co-operative Society. | 3/24/1888 | See Source »

...foot-ball team were presented only a few weeks ago. There can be no excuse on the score of engraving, for this is either unaffected by the outcome of the event, or is done after the cup is received by the winner. The matter may seem of trifling importance, but every one will acknowledge that there is little pleasure in receiving a prize after the memory of the event has all but faded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/22/1888 | See Source »

...have taken walks and runs out-of-doors. The great trouble is that owing to the many ideas about the stroke during the past five years, it is hard to get the men to row alike. There is also a certain deadness in the rowing which the men cannot seem to overcome. So the work now is almost entirely spent in getting the men to row alike, and to get out of their heads the fundamentally wrong principles of the last five years. This is what the coaches are working upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University Crew. | 3/22/1888 | See Source »