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...already begun in earnest to advertise her second game with Yale. Large posters printed in blue and red have been put up, and cards, smaller in size, have been placed in horse-cars and store windows. The men on the nine are working hard with the view of winning the game next Saturday. Even now the freshman nine has made a good showing with Yale, and there is no reason why, with steady practice, '85 should not win the game. Certainly as much real enterprise and enthusiasm has been manifested by the freshmen as has been seen for many years...
While he was understood in college to be a general reader, and more especially devoted to the Muses, he never allowed himself to come to the recitation room without thorough preparation. I have some knowledge that he found more difficulty in mastering the hard problems in the higher branches of mathematics than he did in any of his other studies, but his purpose was never to fail. His class was one in which there was a large amount of ambition and an intense struggle for rank in scholarship. In this class Longfellow stood justly among the first. At commencement...
...base-ball an almost perfect nine is bound to have its "off-days." After a defeat, a nine should be encouraged to do better in the future. It is bad enough for a nine to be beaten, without receiving the abuse of the whole college, after months of hard work on the ball field...
Although we do not consider Harvard entirely out of the race, still we think that the pennant will go either to Yale or Princeton, with a chance in favor of Brown. They have played a magnificent game thus far, and in the face of hard luck. Yale's main strength lies in the abilities of her pitcher, Jones. The Princeton team is a hard one to beat as she has so many old ball tossers. - [Mich. Chronicle.] Is not the Chronicle a little premature in its prognostications...
...named Richter, a shoemaker and editor of a Socialist paper, has been sentenced at Vienna to 12 years' imprisonment at hard labor for high treason...