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...that the whole result was very disappointing, not only to their own class, so confident before the game, but also to the whole college. The upper-class men saw with the usual misgivings, the freshmen set out on their way to New Haven, and the first news of defeat was not a great shock to most men; but when the details were all in, and the playing had been well talked over by all those who saw the game, a different feeling began to prevail. Judging from the games which both these freshman nines had played before last Saturday...
...correspondent in another column takes perhaps, too gloomy a view of the recent defeat of our freshman at New Haven. It is true that they did not by any means meet the expectation of the college, but it has come to be a regular practice of the freshman classes to become "rattled" whenever they go to New Haven. '87 was far from being an exception. As '87 had played so well with Brown the disappointment was only the more severe. We hope that the freshmen, by earnest work and a little more confidence in themselves, will prove that they...
...Yale nine yesterday had a narrow escape from defeat at the hands of Dartmouth. It took ten innings to decide which was the better nine, the score finally standing 11 to 10 in favor of Yale...
...delay in receiving important messages from home and from friends. Now, during the spring time, when ball games and athletic games in which Harvard is interested, are taking place at a distance, the undergraduate population as a whole become interested and anxious that the news of victory or defeat should be made known as soon as possible. Often the patient student waits and waits until late in the evening for returns to be posted which ought to be received soon after the dinner hour is over. Looking at the hours regulating the office, we see that the room is closed...
...give some show of variety to the results of these freshman games. However, let there be no discouragement. '87 has a chance left to retrieve itself on the home grounds, and with steady faithful practice may yet administer to the Yale freshman nine as sound a defeat as has just been received from them...