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...over Exeter last Wednesday evidently gave the men too much confidence in themselves, and so 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...
...themselves. It may be part of the instructor's plan to train men in writing upon barren and uninviting subjects. We doubt if this is so, however. If not it would seem as if the list given out for so large a section could easily be extended. The field from which selections might be made is practically boundless. The list of subjects given out at other colleges as announced in the local college papers proves this fact. In default of other resources we should imagine this an excellent magazine from which to draw supplies of this kind...
...varied by some very fine passing, which, however, proved disastrous in one instance, the ball being passed into the hands of one of the Stevens men. The play of the last three-quarters was on the whole very interesting, being varied, however, by a very fine kick from the field by Cowling, which just missed being a goal. Time was called with the ball in Stevens' half of the field. The best playing for Stevens was done by Worth the half-back, whose catching and kicking were very fine. All the rush line played well for Harvard and Cowling...
...common saying that "life is a struggle." Surely no one appreciates this more than the undergraduate, who when the torments of the class-room are over for the time, has field to his room for a quiet smoke or an hour's study, and is interrupted first, by the dark-skinned man with the earrings and silk handkerchief knotted around his throat. He knocks softly, and entering mysteriously, informs you that he has just arrived from Havana on the steamer, and has, with infinite pains and danger succeeded in smuggling a few thousand cigars, which he happens to have...
Lost-on Jarvis Field, a gold watch, finder will confer a great favor and be rewarded by leaving it at Brock and Leavitt...