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...words, they are afraid of failing. Cases are common at every meeting where men withdraw at the last moment because some one whom they did not expect, has entered. To win one race at Harvard has been sufficient, in the past, to scare all other competitors out of the field for that event, and the result has been continual "walk-overs" for the lucky few. No doubt, it is unpleasant to lose in a contest, but there is almost as much satisfaction in losing pluckily a well-fought race as in winning it. Besides, the man who perseveres is bound...
...GRANT.EDITORS OF THE CRIMSON, - I should be glad to dine with you, but I am obliged to stay in New York to keep an eye on Cyrus W. Field. Yours...
...game with Yale. In many respects it resembled more a game of a crowd of street muckers than a friendly contest between educated gentlemen. . . . That brutality and an unfriendly spirit are not essential characteristics of football has been amply demonstrated, and that a gentlemanly behavior is possible on the field was shown in our game with Harvard, which was an admirable example of football proper. . . . Yale's reputation is universally known and recognized. The opinions of all who have had any dealings with her are identical, and we are sorry that it is not better. . . . The attempt to lay everything...
...from this dreadful field of flames
...afflicted part with one hand, while the muckers scream at him to "hurry up, daddy-long-legs, you'll get left," but Ferdy is too wretched to mind such sarcasm. At last his wind is gone, his legs feel like lumps of iron, and there is a ploughed field and a brook between him and the hounds. Ferdy stumbles and tumbles over the ploughed furrows, and nerves himself to jump the brook - vain attempt! splash he strikes in the water and sinks to his waist in the slimy refrigerator. It is too much for Ferdy to bear, and he gives...