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...games, and especially the next game with Yale. Notwithstanding the poor playing exhibited by Yale last Saturday, there is no doubt that her nine is a strong one. The next game with Yale is to be at New Haven on the 28th of this month. It will be much harder for the Nine to win that game than any it has played this year; and on this account it needs the support of the College more than ever. We understand that the managers have placed a book at Bartlett's, in which all those who can possibly go down...
...comments upon them. In connection with this subject, as the base ball season is about to open, we would speak of the custom of applauding good batsmen when they step up to the bat. The majority of ball players, particularly amateurs, are apt to strike wildly and harder at a ball after applause, and are less sure of a safe hit. With a poor batsman it is somewhat disheartening to step up to the bat four or five times during a game amidst gloomy silence, when three or four men ahead of him have been loudly cheered. We hope that...
...made my lot harder to bear...
...fitted for 'Varsity work the next year by a rest of four and one-half months instead of simply the summer vacation, especially as vacation life is irregular, and does not always build a man up. Moreover, the work for the Freshman examination is more important, as well as harder, than any other work in College, and the time after the class races is not sufficient for preparation if interrupted by the mental inability caused by rowing. Perhaps the most appealing reason to the Freshmen themselves in the favor of our argument is that which is beginning to operate...
...morning, about a month after my arrival, we - that is, Amy and I - were rowing down the bay together in the face of a fresh breeze, that, as we neared the harbor's mouth, was beating the waves harder and harder against our boat. I can't for the life of me say just how it happened, but I believe she quoted something to the effect that troubles were billows on life's ocean; when I proposed that we buffet them in company, and made as big a fool of myself as such circumstances require, promising eternal devotion, and expressing...