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...here. The foot-ball season is a short one and the only way to counteract this handicap is for everyone trying for a position on the team to put his whole heart and soul into the game and work to bring his college out first in the contest. A scant four weeks is all the time that remains before the first championship game takes place and in that space of time men must get into perfect training and learn all the new tricks...
...large number of spectators who were attracted to Jarvis Field, in spite of the wet ground and cloudy sky, show clearly what a strong interest is felt in the prospects of Harvard College in the coming contest...
...Harvard made a strong showing, owing principally to the energy of Captain Willard. On the other hand, we heard many mutterings that the best men were not all represented on the team, and that a more judicious choosing would have given Harvard a better place in the base-ball contest. We are inclined to doubt the value of these mutterings, for the reason that harmony might have been destroyed if the personnel of the nine had been different. But who, may we ask, has a right to maintain private grievances when his duty lies to his college alone...
...seat several times. This hard luck seemed to follow them to New London. In the first place their Waters boat began to soften very perceptibly a few days before the race, and in the race itself an accident occurred which decided from the outset the result of the contest...
...June races were rowed over the Charles-River course. As early as half-past seven people began to collect on the Beacon-Street wall, and at half-past eight the first race was started. The programme announced eight, events, all of which took place. The last and most interesting contest was the eight-oar race, in which the Crescents, Bradfords and the Harvard 'Varsity competed...