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...punishment, but thirty-two or sixty-four demerits have little effect on most men. Besides, the trifling nature of many cases renders the idea of any penalties absurd. It would be an unpleasant thing to have a public for profanity sent home, but a public for noise or ball-playing in the yard bears no odium with it. At the worst, such offences are only offences against good manners...
...been (though no one would have guessed it from his bent body and trembling hands as he sat there in the dying firelight) leader of the trembling crowd of Freshmen on the Delta on one of the first nights of the year, and given "warning," and followed the spinning ball right among the ranks of the Sophomores, coming out victorious, though with torn clothes and covered with scratches. I remember he seemed to impart some of his fire to me, for a patriotic thrill passed through me as he told of the meeting held by Adams, Otis, Hancock, and others...
...energy and spirit displayed by the Freshman Class in Base Ball matters is quite encouraging. Some thirty-five members have handed in their names as candidates for the Nine, and many of them have already begun to work steadily in the Gymnasium. Since the recent election of officers active measures have been taken to bring about matches with the Freshman Nines of all colleges near enough to make it practicable...
...interest in Base Ball for the Freshmen usually culminates in their annual match with Yale. These matches have for the lastfive years proved disastrous to us, and now it seems quite the fashion to tacitly allow that Yale will win the Freshman match, as a matter of course, and Harvard the University match...
RECENT meetings of the Freshman class have resulted in the election of the following officers. Boat Club. - Captain, C. F. Hodges; Secretary, N. A. Thompson; Treasurer, G. W. Green; Executive Committee, D. C. Bacon, W. F. Weld, and the Captain, Secretary, and Treasurer. Base-Ball Club. - President, W. F. Weld; Vice-President, N. A. Thompson; Secretary, H. P. Jaques; Treasurer, G. A. Nickereon; Executive Committee, G. H. Bradford, W. Blaine, and H. Ernst; Captain, N. W. Perry. Foot-Ball Club. - Captain, D. C. Bacon...