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...victories and defeats. This season they have played two matches against the acknowledged strongest club in New England, coming out creditably in both. The cricket team is not pestering the college for subscriptions, and its members are doing their utmost to make the team a success. To any observer fifteen or twenty are visible every afternoon faithfully practising, and although they do not ask for the sympathy of the college, they do ask for its impartial decision...
...that work. The long expected volume has at last appeared. Although, as a collection of student songs, the book is by no means perfect, still, considering the remarkably low price at which it is sold, it should meet with a favorable reception on the part of all college students. Fifteen songs are introduced which were not included in the former editions - "Fair Harvard," "Yale Men Say," "Climbing, Climbing, Climbing," "Tally Ho," "The Midshipmite," "There is a Tavern in the Town," "Drink, Puppy, Drink," and several other songs which have become familiar to the college ear. The only criticism...
...growth of its popularity. It possesses no mysteries like the ancient and classic game whose name it has borrowed, and whose champions look down upon the intruder as rather a sorry sort of parvenu. A person who cannot be made to understand that the advance at a bound from "fifteen" to "thirty" is a perfectly natural numerical progression, that thirty is a matter of course leaps at once to forty, and that "deuce" is the parent of "vantage," must be singularly obtuse...
...Yale freshmen defeated a nine from the Worcester Technical Institute at Springfield last Saturday, by a score of 14 to 2. Yale made eleven base hits with a total of fifteen and but three errors. Worcester got but three hits off Odell...
Round trip tickets to New Haven, good next Saturday, will be sold at the following rates: If fifteen to twenty-five men are going, $6.30 each; twenty-five to fifty men, $5.85 each; fifty to one hundred men, $5.25 each; and over one hundred men, $4.50 each. Book at Bartlett's for signatures...