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...usual custom will be made this year with regard to the method of practice of the baseball team. There are to be reserved from the candidates enough men to constitute a second team and it is hoped by this means to develope better material as well as to afford the 'varsity a better means of practicing. The uniforms of the second team will be furnished by the baseball association and the members will be allowed all the privileges of the 'varsity men with the exception of the training table...
...holding daily services in its room, Grays 17, throughout Lent. The services, except on Wednesdays, are conducted by members of the society and consist only of the reading of a shortened form of evening prayer. They begin promptly at 6.45 p. m., and last about fifteen minutes. They thus afford the Episcopalians here a convenient and simple means of observing the Lenten season. All members of the University are cordially invited to attend these services...
...statistics relating to the numbers of students in the eight larger colleges which are presented in the current number of the Graduates' Magazine afford an excellent opportunity for comparisons...
...absolutely foolhardy to risk certain men of the first eleven in a hard game. An effort was made to have the game called off, but it did not succeed. Dr. Brooks stated last night that the team as it was made up was the best that Harvard could possibly afford to use; that F. Shaw, A. Brewer and Wrenn were none of them in condition to play at all; and that with one exception it was not advisable to use the other men through the whole game...
...really a place here for some game which can be played in the fall by men whose weight is too light for football. As it is, a great many men idle about the gymnasium in the afternoon who would be very glad of some kind of exercise which would afford more excitement than pulley-weights and dumb-bells. The game is one that keeps everyone in motion all the time and is particularly well suited for this season of the year...