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...offered to our track athletes by the college at large. They are obliged to train at their own expense, and unless they win their events they reap very little honor for their labor. The difficulties with which they have been compelled to contend this year have been greater than ever before. In the absence of a regular trainer, men who wish to compete in any events have been compelled to rely on what instruction and training they could obtain from their friends and the few athletes in college who have volunteered their services. Such an arrangement, at the best...
...matters than they have at present. It seems to be a step in the right direction to find out the views held by the candidates for the board of overseers, so that the alumni can vote for men who hold satisfactory opinions on the subject. If "voluntary prayers" are ever to become the rule at Harvard, they will probably come in some such...
President Bartlett is reported as saying that the graduation of Daniel Webster at Dartmouth, was one of the worst things that ever happened to the college, because every student of low standing referred to him as one of his kind who afterward rose to eminence...
Beacons, 6; Harvard, 5.Yesterday's game was notable for the poorest exhibition of umpiring ever seen on Jarvis field, or, it is to be hoped, on any other ball field. Six runs were credited to the Beacons, for five of which they were entirely indebted to the decisions of the umpire. The first poor decision was in the third inning. Ayer struck an evident foul tip which shot far over Nichols' head. The umpire, however, called it a third strike on the ground that the ball struck Ayer's hand instead of the bat. The striker said immediately after that...
...Yale crew, which is nearly the same as that of last year, says the New York Tribune, began rowing in the harbor on Feb. 15, at which time they used a barge. On Feb. 27 they rowed in their shell, and have been rowing in that ever since. It is the same boat used in the race at New London last year. Each day the crew rowed not less than four miles. But the regular training was not begun until April. Now they pull from five to eight miles a day. Since regular training was begun...