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...most noticeable fault of the University men was failure to make the most of hits, on nine of which only four runs were scored. An error, moreover, was directly responsible for two of the runs. In the field they continued their good playing of Tuesday, not an error being chalked against them...
...difficult to prevent men not members of the University from using the courts under the present system by which they are allotted. This is not the only fault of the haphazard arrangement however. At present if all the courts are in use men wander over the field to find out which court will first be vacant. One pair of players may spend ten minutes looking at the time boards and have to wit half an hour for a court, while another pair, more fortunate, may find the first court they strike available in ten minutes. In the long run, luck...
...educational advantages of Germany. The "International Monthly" in particular has done a great deal toward connecting the advances of knowledge in Germany and America to one another and has been an important factor in bringing together, in exchange professorships and otherwise, Harvard and the German universities. The fault of all German journalism seems to be a lack of aggressiveness, but this is not a fatal fault...
Some time ago the CRIMSON published an editorial finding fault with the record shown in their studies by members of the Freshman football team. Since then certain objections have been made to this editorial on the ground that it put the Freshman class in a false light. Wishing to treat these men with all fairness, we shall make it plain how far we were wrong, and how far we were right...
...example of the average issue of this fortnightly, it will be found to contain editorials, several short stories, an essay and three selections in verse. There is a family likeness, it is true, between this number and the many others that have gone before, but can so minor a fault repel the undergraduate? The editorials are interesting in that they reflect the student's opinion of his college world, Mr. Thwing's essay is a genial trifle, Mr. Hurst's and Mr. Peterson's stories meritorious though not distinguished; the poetry is worth reading, Mr. Mariett's "Cat Tails...