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...sees it announced as an important fact in the Boston papers that "All Harvard students buy their hats of Blank & Co." As a leader of the styles, the Harvard student stands unrivalled; he may fail to win renown in the paths of learning, he may meet with continual defeat in the field of athletics, but silent testimony to his greatness and importance in the eyes of the world, such as the above, cannot fail to bring a soothing balm to his heart...
...under present circumstances, would be very hazardous. We can predict with confidence, however, that whatever may be the result of the game, the Harvard nine will do its utmost to gain the victory. The game today will probably be the hardest we shall have to play this year and defeat can be no disgrace. Victory will be creditable in the highest degree. The nine carries with it to Providence our earnest wishes for its success...
...that professional influences ought to be kept out of amateur athletics as far as possible. But there is such a thing as carrying the policy of exclusion too far. For Harvard to insist upon this policy after it has been abandoned by all other colleges is simply to invite defeat for her teams at the hands of the teams of other colleges; and continued defeat: will not be apt to make popular the policy which causes that defeat...
...unfortunate feeling that this championship could add but little to the laurels won in other branches of athletics. The natural consequence of this feeling has been that the half-hearted efforts put forth to take a respectable position at the inter-collegiate games have invariably met with the humiliating defeat which they deserved. Now, however, that the college is fully alive to the importance of making a determined effort to win we have every reason to hope that the time will soon come when our rivals in other fields will find that Yale can hold her own in this also...
...inter-collegiate championship and the Oelrich cup, and has a record better than any other organization in college, the officers of the association ought to experience little difficulty in raising this comparatively small amount for the maintenance of a branch of athletics in which Harvard has never suffered defeat...