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...played a sharp game in the field. The freshmen, however, disappointed the sanguine hopes of their friends by showing a decided tendency to get rattled under heavy batting, and playing besides a wretched game at the bat and in the field. For '86, Rankin, Gardner and Burnett bore off the honors, and for '88, Fargo, Ingersoll and Choate. Following is the score...
...maidens for twenty years, till finally, indifference caused its death. Its last captain was a member of the class of 1787. After a sleep of twenty-one years, it was (in 1811) reorganized by Gov. Gerry, and then received the name of the "Harvard Washington Corps," which name it bore during the remainder of its existence. Arms were furnished by the State. The uniform was changed from the "Continental" style worn by the first organization to one rather more modern. It was composed of a blue coat, white vest, white pantaloons, white gaiters, a common black hat, and white belt...
...fourth minute the juniors had only four inches. By repeated heaves, however, the juniors brought the ribbon more to their side, and, making a tremendous heave at the last instant, won by six inches. The usual demonstration of class enthusiasm followed as the juniors bore their victorious team from the hall amid repeated cheers. The teams were made up as follows: '85, Simes, Boyden, Gorham, Gilman (anchor). '86, Adams, Churchill, Cabot, Dewey (anchor...
...class races. It is but rarely that any class enthusiasm is shown equal to that which is the invariable accompaniment. of a victorious "tug." It will be many a year before those who witnessed it, will forget the wild excitement which prevailed when the '83 men, then dignified seniors, bore their victorious team from the hall on their shoulders...
Still, I must confess that I was shocked at the president's complaint of the security of the present board of overseers, and still more shocked that, in a torchlight procession during the late unpleasantness, Harvard students bore a transparency inscribed, "Average age of Overseers, 95 in the Shade." Now, this is absurd, as absurd as the assertion in one of your journals that your Mr. Evarts "was too old for a senator," and that he "was too old to change his mind." Why, your new senator is Billy Evarts, Evarts, who used to reel off Adams's Latin Grammar...