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...together for its usual up-hill game, and soon upset all of the Williamsburgher's calculations of victory. At both ends of the field the Harvard men played completely around their opponents. Several of the Williamsburgh players were sent flying heels over head by vigorous body checks, and every attempt to drop the ball through the Harvard flags was frustrated. At the end of the hour the extraordinary score-for lacrosse-of seven goals to one had been made, the result being in favor of Harvard...
...fifth, Harvard made three runs, two of them being earned, off a three-base hit by Nichols, a single by Willard, and another three-baser by Allen. Allen scored on a passed ball and Smith was put out at home in a foolish attempt to score. Dartmouth added two runs in this inning bringing the score up to 9 to 3 for Harvard. In the sixth, our nine failed to score for the second and last time; Dartmouth likewise receiving a blank, although Scruton reached first on a wild throw by Wiestling, and went around to third...
...often compelled to await his turn until the individual members of the detail of muckerism which happens to have precedence over him have sufficiently amused themselves and their comrades by various feats of agility of which the pump is the prime motor. It is useless for the faculty to attempt to rejuvenate the sickly sward while it is the camping ground of muckerism. Never has the college been so troubled by this form of torment, and never has the condition of the yard been so deplorable. It is needless to draw conclusions, they are self-evident...
...after all something is lacking in the scene. We try to think what it can be, and finally we discover it. Right before us stretching over a hundred yards of ground, the walls of the Jefferson Laboratory raise their giant and rigid outlines; their harsh effect lessened by no attempt at any concealment of their hideous nudity. As we rise with a sigh because the field cannot be entirely beautiful after all, we breathe a wish that our landscape gardner would only train a little ivy up the north end of that building, or plant a few young elms...
...notable changes and innovations. In the first place, it is larger than last year by eight or ten pages, a circumstance chiefly due to the addition of all the freshman electives. Many of the changes in the different departments are strong evidences of progress, while they all show that attempt is made to satisfy, as far as possible, the demands of the students. It is quite true, however, that the clamorers after courses in Stenography, Journalism, and Common Law have still to wait another year at least, contenting themselves with the advances that have been made and looking forward...