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...distant lands that large numbers of people were flocking to Harvardium, to take advantage of the culture and facilities of the place. Now it happened that the members of the Facultas received very meagre salaries for their arduous and valuable services, while the Board consisted of men who were either very wealthy, or lived on fame-a kind of ambrosial fruit, which was said to possess peculiar properties, and insured the fortunate eater happiness and sustenance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History Repeats Itself. | 4/17/1885 | See Source »

...weeks the elective pamphlet will appear; the faculty are already considering the additions and omissions which will be made and the manner in which different courses will be conducted. We sincerely hope that the expediency of adding certain courses, which have from time to time been suggests either in our editorial columns or by our correspondents, will be considered. The value of the sciences is fast becoming recognized, but our scientific department, although, perhaps, in some respects the strongest in college, will never be fully equipped until it offers to the students an elementary course in one of the grandest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/17/1885 | See Source »

...inasmuch as it exacts payment for games not attended. The purchaser of a season ticket insures a certain amount of patronage to the base-ball interest, but he naturally expects some inducement to be offered in return. $3.50 last year gave admittance to more games than $5.00 will this. Either he present price should be lowered, or an endeavor should be made to increase considerably the number of games. Unless one of these measures be adopted, we fear that the base-ball management will find their sales of season tickets remarkably small, a thing which neither they nor we desire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/16/1885 | See Source »

...much time and energy is spent upon our military duties, that all athletic sports are practically abandoned. We have no base-ball, no foot-ball, no boating, although the material for either of the last two is splendid, and some day we may have in the field, an eleven with a five pound heavier average than Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Letter From West Point. | 4/14/1885 | See Source »

...pitcher was obliged to delivery ball without bending his elbow, the Result being a mere toss of the ball, which was batted unmercifully; then the scores often run as high as 40 runs, whereas now, a game may be played for fifteen innings without either st scoring a ran. An old ball pla would hardly recognize the game today, so much has it changed. August we have created a science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Science in Athletics. | 4/14/1885 | See Source »