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...disabling of its captain early in the year. We were glad to notice that the game of Saturday was an improvement on the Yale game last year, both in the brutality in the hostile eleven and in the disposition to quarrel, and we hope that this spirit may direct our future contests with Yale. With a record of six games played and only two defeats, we think the Football Team need not be discouraged, but may look forward to a time when Harvard shall again be champion of the country, as she is now of Canada...
...vision! Beautiful light brown hair, very dark brown eyes, perfect features, and a figure that would have thrown all the Venuses of Milo in the shade. My ideal was realized, for that she was a country girl, the basket which she carried, containing an apple and a sandwich, bore direct testimony. I noted all these points in a twinkling of an eye, for two years in a class like '82 develops one's eye for female beauty amazingly. My heart throbbed as she gazed at me in a pensive manner and sighed again. I resolved to storm the fort...
...umpire, on appeal from either party before the toss for choice, may direct the players to change sides at the end of every game, if in his opinion either side have a distinct advantage, owing to the sun, wind, or any accidental cause; but if the appeal be made after a match has begun, the umpire may only direct the players to change sides at the end of every game of the odd and concluding...
...full operation even in our lower schools, where its effects are noticeably injurious. Work at high pressure, nervous energy and its result, nervous exhaustion, are evils put by our modern Solomons on the shoulders of young people. That cases of nervous disease occur even among young children, as a direct effect of our present school system, is known to every physician. People wonder at the increase of weak eyes, of brain disease, and insanity among us, and do not see the potent cause...
...them to support an unfit or corrupt candidate. How much influence this warning will have with the leaders in both the great parties, we are unable to say, but we fear that it will be very little. The University, however, in declaring for an honest and competent man to direct the affairs of the nation, has performed its duty. The vote, though not as large as it might have been, speaks well for the interest taken in politics by undergraduates, while the success of the canvass was owing, in a great measure, to the efforts of the Chairman...