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...April 10 under the heading of "Physician Heal Thyself" quotes from a recent editorial in the CRIMSON on the loose manner in which our athletics are reported in the outside press, and comments as follows: "And yet this apostle of accuracy and judgment continues to prattle about the Mott Haven team,' "the Mott Haven Cup,' 'going to Mott Haven,' competing at Mott Haven,' etc., etc." Now in the first place, if the Spirit of the Times knows more about college athletics than the athletes themselves, we stand corrected, or if it feels competent to dictate as to college custom...
...amusing circumstance in this connection is the fact that the following clipping is taken from the same issue and the same page of the Spirit on which their criticism of us occurs. "Yale's chances for winning the cup at the Mott Haven games this spring have been greatly lessened by the withdrawal of H. S. Brooks and Hamilton from active athletics." The italics are ours...
...Candidates for the Mott Haven team will meet this morning in front of Matthews at 8.15, and every morning at the same hour until further notice...
...KEYES, Sec'y.H. A. A. Candidates for the Mott Haven team will meet this morning in front of Matthews at 8.15, and every morning at the same hour until further notice...
Persistent stupidity. We are amused to note that the persons who are permitted to edit Harvard newspapers and Harvard programmes still apply to the inter collegiate team the ridiculous name "Mott Haven." We are informed that hereafter the Harvard crew which rows against Yale at New London next July will be called the "Winnipiseogee Crew," because the Harvard-Yale race was rowed on that euphoniously named lake. - Spirit of the Times...