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...some other college, (such, in fact, is reported to be the case) as we can see no reason why such a measure can benefit us. The number of games will be so limited that interest in football, baseball, lacrosse and cricket will be down to a very low ebb. Even if this interest should increase, as its projectors hope, there is no opportunity for more men to play than do at present on account of the very limited extent of the Harvard athletic grounds. If the faculty desire so much that athletics should become more general, only let them purchase...
...quartette has never yet been a part of its organization. With regard to the duties of the Glee Club to the college, and those of the college toward the Glee Club, I must make a grave general charge against the college. Musically speaking it is at the lowest ebb of indifference. Not to speak of the neglect of the musical opportunities afforded by Boston, the number of students attending Mr. Henschel's concerts in Sanders itself was disproportionately small; while the concerts which Prof. Paine arranged, on his personal responsibility, in Sever, were a failure through the utter indifference...
...race shall be rowed on ebb-tide and started within two hours of high water at the starting line...
...unavoidably delayed by the death of the Columbia coxswain, but it was postponed by mutual consent to another day, subject to the same minor conditions which were to govern the first-named day. (3.) One of these conditions was that the race should be rowed upon a fair ebb tide, and this condition Harvard refused to act up to. (4.) But granting for the sake of argument that this condition was waived by Columbia, and that Columbia acted in an unjustifiable manner and sought unfair advantages, it was not for Harvard to take the law into her own hands...
...original agreement was that the race should be rowed upon a fair ebb tide, that is, when the tide had run out for at least two hours. The tide was high, July 3, at noon, and in requesting Harvard to row at 2 P. M., you were simply asking to have the agreement carried...