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...ease with which Harvard defeated the University of Pennsylvania was as gratifying as surprising. Not only did Harvard tie the series between the two universities, but Bayne, the visitor's crack pitcher, was batted out of the box in two innings, and Jack Highlands was withdrawn at the end of the fourth to save him for the hard games later in the week...
...Jack Highlands and Mason were the battery for Harvard. The work of the former was highly effective. The only signs of weakness and lack of practice were the four bases on balls and a wild pitch. On the other hand Holy Cross hit safely but three times, while thirteen struck out. Highland's work in the second was a pretty exhibition of pitching. Two Holy Cross men reached third and second on a wild pitch and two bases on balls. With no men out a score seemed inevitable, but by very clever work he succeeded in striking cut the next...
...sure the 'varsity was then in a very poor condition because the men had been changed about a good deal and were unused to their positions. Today, however, ought to see quite a different result, even though the nine is again in a more or less unsettled condition. Jack Highlands was taken off of probation last night and will pitch in today...
...certainly going on. And yet this change does not mean a "decadence." The "Harvard spirit" is too much of a reality, is too deeply a part of the University to be lost. It may be modified to suit more advanced ideas, but that is all. We believe with "Jack," if only from an instinctive feeling, that our present position will prove to be the "outcome of a glorious past, the natural prelude to a more glorious future...
...Major Learned to Fish." It is an interesting and commonplace love story with a little advice as to the best methods of fishing for pike and bass worked in. The heroine is a little stilted but she knows so much about fishing that we can forgive her. "A Jack-Rabbit Chase" by Belle Hunt, is brisk and amusing. The leading article of the number is "Queens of the Trotting Track." It is chiefly statistics and is rather dull reading to one not particularly interested in the subject. It is illustrated with several full page pictures of the "Queens" from paintings...