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...players have never troubled themselves about, and though Matthews and Coleman, and, in fact, any of them, can tell exactly how a ball will go if it leaves the hand in a certain way, with a certain amount of force, why or how it does it they decline to explain. Yyng, of the New York Stock Exchange nine, or the Staten Island nine, as they now call it, is more ready with a theory, which he probably developed at Harvard while taking Ernst's hot balls from the bat. "The out curve," said he, "or the one from right...
...they failed on encountering the sharp playing of the Andover team. It is true that Andover men alone are initiated into the mysteries of the brick yard which serves them as a foot-ball field, still ignorance of the state of the grounds cannot in any way explain the loose playing of our team. The freshmen played with little or no order, and all the advantage they gained came from individual plays. Time and again a lack of system alone kept them from scoring and though at times they played hard the steady playing of their opponents beat them back...
...that at Yale the college itself bears the larger proportion of the expenses of the room, while at Harvard it would probably be impossible to obtain from the college more than the mere use of a room without light or heat This fact, however, should be small reason to explain the non-existence at Harvard of an institution fully equal in all its conveniences and appointments to that at Yale. If a sufficient number will grant their support there is no doubt but that the directors of the reading-room will find it possible to secure a room, perhaps...
...recitation tomorrow morning Mr. Parker will explain to his section in Maximum Latin the composition of the examination paper...
...perhaps unnecessary to explain in reference to our editorial of yesterday that Gov. Butler and not the HERALD was the one who ascribed the authorship of "The Brook" to Longfellow...