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...forward and pay up the remainder as soon as possible. If the whole amount subscribed is paid, it will enable the management to procure very handsome cups which will serve as substantial memorials of the gallant acts of Eighty-nine. We trust that this last appeal may have its effect on the stony hearts of those sophomores whose signatures have not yet had the magic word "Paid" placed after them in the blue-book at Leavitt & Peirce...
...base-ball worthies at Harvard have met with a rebuff. When these fierce old ladies in boys' clothing invited Yale to join them in their little scheme for monopolizing public interest in college games, they received a courteous slap in the face, which, we trust, will have a beneficial effect. Such a scheme is all very nice and select, but it savors much more of the tea-pot than the open field. There is something melancholy yet comic in this endeavor to exclude from direct competition such a college as Columbia, for instance, whose agile nine are the present champions...
Last year the management of the winter meetings did not take all the care possible to make the sparring fair. Gloves were neither furnished by the H. A. A., nor were those the contestants were allowed to provide weighed or examined. It makes a great difference in the effect of a blow whether it is struck with a five-ounce glove or one which weighs but two; and gloves should either be provided by the association, or those of the contestants should be weighed with as much care as is bestowed on the men themselves. In all amateur meetings this...
...continual practice of athletes for the games so impressed the correct form of the nude figure upon the artist that he was gradually induced to abandon conventional statues of the gods and fashion the more perfect ones of athletes. Then, too, the training of many men had the effect of furnishing a large number of good models. It is almost impossible for our modern artists to get even one very good model. The Palaestra became the dissecting room of the Greek artist; he did not need to study the human form...
...that before long The officers of the association have labored diligently in the part, to promote a greater interest in cricket at Harvard, than is at present apparent. We trust that this appeal, published entirely without the knowledge or request of any of the officers, may have its effect in loosening the purse-strings of those who have hitherto turned a deaf ear to such appeals...