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...course of a few years the contest narrows down to two or three institutions, let all the rest drop cut; they are wholly unnecessary." The real object of the league, on the contrary, we think, is to afford chance for enjoyable sport to the colleges engaged, and to keep alive and stimulate an interest in athletics. If perpetual defeat can be the only lot of the smaller colleges, we do not see what pleasure or profit they can gain from membership. The ideal aim of keeping alive inter-collegiate amity and good feeling is all very well and is undoubtedly...
...Greek department seems to be determined to keep its well-earned reputation for push and energy, which has made it so popular in the past. The action of Prof. White in offering to the students of his course one of the retiring rooms in Sever as a reading room and study, must meet with the approval of every student who has suffered from the numerous inconveniences which necessarily attach to the library, however excellent the management of that institution. Where a large crowd frequent one room, as is the case with the library, there must be more or less noise...
...things are not always what they seem, and their ideas of defeating Harvard might have met with a decided shock. Next year our foot-ball prospects seem still more brilliant, for we have promise of good players and plenty of support. The Yale-Harvard game on Thanksgiving day will keep the excitement up until the very end, so the team will in all probability receive encouragement and support without reserve. May '84 succeed in lifting Harvard a step higher in foot-ball and bringing back the sought for championship laurels...
...game, resembling as it did the game with Yale of last year, I should like to advocate a measure which I am sure will meet with the approbation of most of the fair-minded men of the college, and which deserves the attention of every person who believes in keeping the college sports free from all manifestation of the "mucker" spirit. I refer to the advisability of giving up our annual Yale game of foot-ball. I believe that after the exhibition given us by Yale last Saturday, that every Harvard man who wishes to keep up the tone...
...Beneath the window hangs a portrait of Captain Robert Shaw, and all about the hall stand busts, many of which represent men whose names are connected with that crimson page of our history of which John Lafarge's window is a passionate reflection. A large band of negro servitors keep the building in order, and wait upon the tables at meal-time. They go cheerfully about their work, whistling and humming their own soft melodies. One wonders if they are conscious of the significance of the scarlet stain which at noontide the sunlight casts across the floor at their feet...