Word: wished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Someone interested in Princeton athletics, who does not wish his name to be known, has given a large sum of money for the improvement of the athletic grounds there, and they have accordingly been enlarged to nearly double the size of last year. The hill on the west side of the old field has been taken away and the clay carted to the south side, where it has been used to fill up an old hollow. The hollow corner at the northeast has also been filled in, and space sufficient for three or four new football fields has thus been...
...MOORE.TOBOGGAN CLUB.- A blue book has been placed at Leavitt and Pierce's for the signatures of those who wish to have a toboggan slide on the college grounds this winter. Men are urged to sign promptly. The book will be removed Friday, December...
Only three days remain in which the freshmen may prepare for their contest at Yale; at the end of that time it must be decided whether the freshman championship shall remain here or shall go to Yale. Of course there is but one wish throughout the university that our eleven shall win. The freshman football teams of the past three years have established a precedent which must not be broken. At the same time our team must work if they would succeed. The fact that very little has been heard of Yale's freshman team this year is no criterion...
...expression, "put yourself in his place." He said he would agree with his opponents that the republican party was lazy but the question to be proved was whether or not President Harrison had violated his pledges. The president has been surrounded by incompetent heads of departments who wish to turn out men; in addition he is oppressed by poor service. The platform of the republican party he said, favors the extension of the civil service reform in so far as to give the sole power of removal from office to an investigation committee. Had President Harrison vetoed any of these...
According to this article athletic contests are fast losing their Interest, as people wish to see a regular amateur exhibition and failing this. would prefer to witness a contest between avowed professionals, who make athletics a business and far exceed the efforts of their collegiate quasi-brethren...