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...been organized and the runs were beginning to take place regularly twice a week. The direction and supervision of the runs were under the charge of the captain of the Mott Haven team who was more than anxious for the success and prosperity of the club because it helped to develop new men for track athletics. There must be some head to start the interest in Hare and Hounds this year as there was last, otherwise fellows who are interested in that sport will be at a loss to know what to do, where to meet, etc. I should think...
...superintendence of the rowing matters in general. There has been too much relying on the present captain for all such matters during the past two or three years. but the question is whether it has been the captains' good opinion of themselves or the refusal of the graduates to help them...
...with a would-be-knowing air, "Pshaw, the cricket eleven never does anything!" Even were this assertion true-which it is not-whose fault is it? We would like to put the question, "What has ever been done among the students at large to encourage or help those who are trying to introduce the game of cricket to its proper position in the athletic sports of Harvard?" The answer is, "Little or nothing...
...Yale Alumni support their undergraduates. This enthusiasm of Yale graduates and the co-operatian of students and alumni at New Haven is what makes it possible for Bob Cook, Esq., and certain other gentlemen to be travelling through the West this autumn raising large sums of money to help defeat Harvard again in 1888. If rowing interests and successes were left to become the burden for one man, the 'Varsity captain, to carry, how long would this earnestness and co-operation last...
...needs no argument. Men would accept it at once without urging. He wished to speak of two subjects briefly. First, the intellectual difficulty which men meet with in religion. This difficulty must be settled first. Our minds must be satisfied. Man is a born questioner, he cannot help doubting. And the whole world is a Sphinx, full of my story. If it were not so, there would be nothing for man to use his intellect upon. Also the instruments by which we study are impaired by nature, and by prejudice. The lenses with which a man sees are not corrected...