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...anything at all in athletics, to enter for the athletic contests that take place in March, and not show the usual freshman timidity in putting themselves forward for athletic honors. The winter meeting of the Athletic Association will determine, in a great measure, how much we may depend upon '85 to help Harvard keep up her reputation for general athletics that she has won at Mott Haven during the past two years. Again we expect '85 to give more hearty pecuniary support to her nine and crew, and to make the best showing possible in the coming athletic contests...
...that the semis are so near at hand, the men who have done a fair amount of work during the term, are to be envied. It is a common fault at Harvard for men to neglect the preparation of their daily work, and to depend almost entirely upon an unnatural amount of very hard and concentrated work just before examination. The bad effects of this manner of studying are so obvious, that they scarcely need mention, but to bring freshly before the mind of the student the great mistake made by so many in this direction, we will call attention...
...only throw the money in yer face, depend upon 't, Metcalf...
...were not leading disputants. Occasionally there would be a good five-minute speech from the house. But such speeches were very few and far between. Now, it was entirely foreign to the original intention of the Union that the debate should be monopolized by four men; for debates depend to a large extent for their vivacity upon the number of different standpoints from which the questions are discussed. Besides, the more often a man speaks, the more interested he becomes in debating. Here, then, is an opportunity for a vast improvement this year. If twenty men would only pledge themselves...
...take last spring for a criterion, for at that time none of our numerous bicyclists could be found disengaged, who were willing to take the trouble to train for Mott Haven. In the Running High Jump we have two or three men on whom we can depend; but the sum total of our athletes to whom we can look for conscientious training is, it has been seen, lamentably small...