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...more, however great the strain...
...game Monday was an improvement on Saturday's game, the men having in a great part recovered from the nervousness consequent upon their first experience with a professional nine. Nunn's fine base running and catching, Olmstead's good work at first base, and Cohen's stop of a hot liner, were the noticeable features of Harvard's game. It is sufficient to say of Tyng that he played as well as ever, and to see him once more in the field made us long for the Nine of '78. The following is the score...
...first game of the Beacon series for the silver ball was played before an enthusiastic audience, and resulted in a great surprise to the Beacons as well as the College. The fielding on the Harvard side was brilliant, Coolidge and Nunn making fine fly-catches, and Olmstead accepting fourteen chances on first base without an error. Knowles' delivery proved very annoying to the Beacons, and Stevens gave him excellent support behind the bat. With a little practice these two men will form a strong addition to the Nine, if not for this year surely for subsequent ones. Lloyd batted finely...
...second object is, to reward those who now distinguish themselves in special branches. A man who is enough of a specialist to stand well in a certain subject, and no others, should try for Final Honours; they are for specialists, and convey great distinction. A student who does not care enough for his special study to take honours in it, or for other studies to get an average of eighty per cent, ought not to complain if his merits are not rewarded by a place on the Commencement programme, and should be satisfied with the credit given him each year...
...recently remarked that this scheme was like the great bill for "Giving Everybody Everything," and it certainly is. Everybody cannot be rewarded; if they were, rewards would lose all their worth. Half the essence of a prize is the distinction from others it conveys. By lowering the standard of the requirements for honours, we decrease the value of those prizes, and the hitherto highly valued graduation honours of Harvard College will soon degenerate to the level of the numerous prizes lavished among the classes of small-sized colleges...