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...cricket team this year begins the season with unusually bright prospects for success. Although several players of the eleven last year have gone, there still remains a majority of experienced players who will form an admirable nucleus for a new team. They are under the charge of an energetic and competent captain; and moreover are to have the help of a good coach. The earnest way in which the men have started in work is another encouraging sign. The most noteworthy and promising fact, however, is the steady growth of the game in popular college favor. Ever since the first...
...thought, that such a decided falling off in interest would surely counteract our success in track and field athletics. The facts, however, do not warrant such an assumption. Never has our success been greater than in the past year or two, and our prospects for the future seem equally bright. The natural suggestion, then, might be that the cause which has killed the interest in our meetings has also kept up the general success in the athletics. It seems to us that, as a matter of fact, such is the case; and that this cause is the general rise...
...were Sophomores, "in the full tide of sumptuousness and just at the age to enjoy the excitements of the occasion," -is vivid in the extreme. He tells of the political excitement which permeated the men in the fall of 1860, of the student parades, of the many bright verses and squibs which the occasion brought forth, and of the organization of the Harvard cadets, which, by the bye, were drilled by President, then Professor, Eliot. Then comes an account of the students leaving for the army, and a short sketch of the work and deeds of Harvard soldiers. The article...
...Interpolation," and last, but not least, a "Person," and in general show that Mr. Stockton is in the highest of spirits. Miss Murfree's serial "Felicia" ends the present number and ends tragically. Mr. Francis P. Church contributes an interesting paper about Richard Grant White, and in a bright autobiographic fragment, entitled "My Schooling," we are told of James Freeman Clarke's early educational training. "The State University in America," by George E. Howard, advocates the establishment of universities in each State, which shall be universities in something more than name, and the relegation of the many colleges of insufficient...
...least as much to the early work of the squad as to any other of Captain Cumnock's innovations. Our foot ball management seems determined not to learn carelessness from success; for the squad will go out even earlier this year than last. The prospects are very bright, yet men must remember that our rivals felt their defeat keenly last year, and that nothing will beat them again but hard and early work. Therefore it is to be hoped that as large a number of men as may be will come out tomorrow. Success is too pleasant...