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There is perhaps no immediate question of organization more vital to the athletic interests of the University than the permanent establishment of the Weld Boat Club on a firm financial basis. The training school is of undoubted value, and has in the last two years certainly proved its right to rank as a 'Varsity institution...
...Freshmen line proved especially strong and though the 'Varsity made many attempts at line bucking, it held firm in nearly every instance...
Daniel Denny, senior member of the firm of Denny, Poor and Co., died in New York on the 14th instant, after a very short illness. Mr. Denny was born in 1835 and graduated at Harvard in 1854. He then went into business. His widow, two daughters and a son survive...
...Varsity had no trouble in defeating Amherst yesterday by a score of 38 to 0, although Amherst by a blocked punt and a succession of vigorous rushes through the centre, missed scoring only through Harvard's making a firm stand on her 5-yard line. Taken all in all, the game was an interesting contest, and in one particular at least, namely in the decided improvement shown by the eleven as a whole during the second half, was illustrative of the effect of quick, snappy play upon an opposing team. Harvard, it may be said, played erratically. In the first...
There seems to be an unfortunate failing, a sort of blindness which suggests mental weakness, that takes a firm grip on large numbers of Freshmen every year. They have to be told upon all possible occasions where they can do most to benefit themselves, and there is no end to the necessity of prodding them on to do things which they ought to have sense enough to do of their own accord. If there is one thing which can put a new man at Harvard in the way of making friends with his classmates and can give him a dignified...