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...Board of Overseers on the condition and conduct of athletics at Harvard. The report of the majority is open to criticism. Many of the facts therein detailed are undoubtedly true, but it is difficult to understand how a fair-minded body of men could have clamly and deliberately drawn such an exaggerated conclusion as the recommendation of the entire abolishion of intercollegiate contests. This conclusion is not justified by the premises, as any candid observer of both sides of the question must allow. The report says, for example, that athletics have tended to become the ruling passion at Harvard...
...greater pity if the faithful members should find themselves so handicapped next fall by lack of support from the upperclassmen that they could not find heart to attempt a revival of the society. The fault lies, we believe, with the older members who have allowed their attention to be drawn off by other things. At any rate, it is upon the shoulders of the members from Eighty-eight and from Eighty-nine that the blame must rest if the Pierian keeps the down-bill path, it seems to be taking. Every man in the University will join us in urging...
...courses for the class races have been drawn and are as follows: '88 inside, nearest the wall; '89 next; '90 next, and '91 outside...
...drawn to any profession merely by the expectation of profit is very likely to be disappointed. To others the law forms a most attractive and fascinating pursuit. Certainly the maintenance and development of justice is the pleasantest of all occupations...
Representative teams of Ireland and Wales engaged in the annual competition at Rugby foot-ball on Wrexham race-course on the 4th inst. The international matches of Rugby were begun in 1881, when Wales won. The match of 1882 was drawn, and Wales then won uninterruptedly up to last year, when Ireland scored its first victory. This year Wales put a very strong team in the field, with the result that Ireland was beaten by 11 goals...