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There is not a car running on the Cambridge line to-day. The Harvard students in Cambridge think that it would be great sport to run a car tonight and fill it with students having university men for conductor and driver. They also propose to follow up the car with a small army of students, and have a "rough and tumble," as they call it, with the strikers. At a conference this forenoon they decided to ask the city officials for a license and then to offer their services to the company. The faculty have been notified and the scheme...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/11/1887 | See Source »

This is the history of this deservedly popular sport at Harvard, where it has had for so many years so many champions to win it honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tug-of-War. | 2/10/1887 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: The refinement of torture, the nightmare of the Mid-years, 36 per cent. is a thing of the past. E may bring despair, but not such exasperation. On the other hand, the uncompromising grind finds himself in A side by side with a lucky and judicious sport. It can no longer be said absolutely, "If you are good you will be happy but you won't have a good time." A premium has been taken off that mid-year knowledge - if knowledge it can be called - which is useful in the examination room and nowhere else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 1/28/1887 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Now that the time of good sleighing, good skating, moderate winter weather and clear, moonlight evenings has come it behooves us to think of some of the sports which such a season naturally brings, in connection with the college. The college as a college may be said to have no winter sports at all; nothing to take the place of the autumnal foot-ball and the vernal base ball, nor yet the eternal tennis. A few years ago this fact was deplored, and a Hockey Club was founded to supply in a measure this lack. What...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/12/1887 | See Source »

...attest the growing popularity of tobogganing as a sport, it is estimated that there are now about twenty-five slides in and about Boston. Thus far this year, there have been but a few trifling accidents and the weather has proved all that could be desired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/11/1887 | See Source »

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