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...hours a week during September, if not during the entire summer, to kicking and catching. It may not be agreeable to undergo any exertion during the summer months, but it is only by the self-sacrifice and hard work of individuals that we can hope to check the annual defeat we sustain at the hands of Yale...
Today the freshman lacrosse twelve will try their best to defeat the Yale freshmen at New Haven. The number of men who have tried for the team is considerable and the team selected ought to make a creditable showing. Of course, a game requiring so much skill and headwork as does lacrosse cannot be perfectly learned in one season, but a beginning must be made some time, and the beginning made by '87 is certainly creditable. It is a pity that not all the best men are able to go today, but the result must be that those who have...
...this point the small Dartmouth contingent had struggled nobly with their complicated cheer, and the Yale rash were wholly inadequate to silence it. But after the sophomores met them squarely on their own grounds shouting with great spirit their tortuous Aristophean yell, the Hanoverites by their silence acknowledged their defeat." And again, the cheering and excitement at the park yesterday surpassed anything that has been seen or heard in New Haven for years. Even the annual freshman ball game excitement was surpassed...
...after they had gained the game by that same welcome. Truly, this is a good specimen of Yale politeness. There is but one word that characterizes such a proceeding fitly, and that is-"muckerish." It plainly shows that Yale has become so used to victory that she cannot accept defeat in a straightforward and gentlemanly spirit, but must have recourse to the methods of roughs and bullies to obtain that which she cannot get by fair play...
...express a "don't-carewhat-happens" state; in other words, a non-emotional existence which has its good points when compared to the headlong whirl of the nineteenth century, and those that are bad when compared to the athletic standing of rival colleges. If indifference enables men to bear defeat or loss, either in the baseball field, in football, or at the boatrace, with tolerable equanimity, or to hail victories without any outrageous demonstration, it is, and ought to be, considered a good quality. To treat a victorious or team from a rival college cordially or courteously, without showing...