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...heartiest good wishes If victory comes to them, the men may well feel proud of their record; it will be a triumph over odds which will increase the satisf action of winning. If they loose, there will be still another chance to even up the honors and the defeat should be hut a spur to greater effort...
HARVARD '96 VS. M. I. T. '96.The freshmen could not get through a season, without showing the same tendency to lose their heads, that seems to accompany every freshman nine. They were beaten yesterday by the M. I. T. '96, without any excuse for the defeat. The score was eight to four and in every case, the Tech. scores were made by men who had reached first either on errors or on bases on balls. Ninety-six also batted poorly, getting only four hits off Dakin, though one of these was a home run by Winslow, Nearly all the work...
...some other town to play for the honor of class and college. The feeling that one is surrounded by a thoroughly unsympathe tic crowd has more than once had a de pressing influence on a visiting team even so far as to turn a probable victory into defeat. Let a nine or eleven realize that in the mass of on lookers, there are some who are in sympathy with them and ready to encourage by their cheers every worthy effort, then they will play with an increased vigor that is often enough to win the victory...
...toward the Mott Haven team. This is every now and then cropping out and it is not in accord with the spirit of the University. The time may come, when through a false and unlogical way of looking at things a few men may prove the indirect cause of defeat. This is not a mere possibility, but a decided probability. Should a misfortune of this kind come to us, we cannot but think those who were so largely responsible for it would feel sincere regret. Yet even if in spite of such setbacks, as the refusal of winning...
...enjoyment of each individual player. Freshman nines are notoriously slack in their work at the beginning of the season. Toward the end they wake up to a sense of what they are aiming to accomplish, but too often their eyes are opened when the critical point has passed and defeat seems inevitable. They then rally, settle down to serious work and close the season, showing the college what might have been done if they had more prudence and foresight. Such a method of training is unscientific as it is discreditable to each individual member of the nine. Those who have...