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...which is contradicted in the same sentence by the assertion that "no one. . . . can attribute the disastrous result to these causes." In the item column we are sarcastically told " the thanks of the College are due Harvard for the gentlemanly manner" in which the Freshman nine was treated. Any man who was present at the Freshman match, and heard the hearty applause with which good plays on either side were received, knows how entirely untrue any charge of bullying is. We do think that it is hardly necessary to clap a player who gets his first-base on an error...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

...that is, that the Nine should have the bodily support of a number of Harvard men at the next Yale game. Every one should consider that his presence at or absence from New Haven on the 24th will affect the result of the game to a considerable extent. Each man who cares to see Harvard victorious should make a point of helping to win the game, by being present at it. Doubtless the same advantageous terms will be again offered by the railway company, so that the journey to Yale will be easy and inexpensive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

That would not a man despise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EDITOR'S DRAWER. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

...man must have had a remarkable mind. He saw through the devices that men invent to conceal the transitory nature of everything on earth, and he resolved to make the most of the present. In this side of character he is thoroughly Horatian. One would fancy he was reading one of the Odes when meeting these lines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PERSIAN POETRY. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

...either graduates or undergraduates. A university library ought to have books that a scholar will need, whatever line of study he may be pursuing. The works of Abu-1-Fazl and Mirza-Shafi, and the Arabic grammar of Muhammad bin Daud may not be of interest to the man of "general culture," - a phenomenon of which Harvard College, it is gratifying to know, is growing suspicious, - but they will certainly prove useful to the student of Turkish literature, and will be valuable to a scholar who intends travelling in the East...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PERSIAN POETRY. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »