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...evening. The Newburyport turnpike will be followed to Danvers, and thence the course will be through Wenham, Ipswich, Rowley, Newburyport, Salisbury and Hampton. All who can are urged to start with the club, even though they feel unequal to a ride of two day's duration. Such members need go only as far as Ipswich, where all will take dinner, and while the others go on they can turn back, reaching home by 6 o'clock Saturday evening. A ride of this sort is especially enjoyable, and will, besides, furnish excellent practice for the hare and hound chase the club...
...professional aspect of base ball have become so evident of late that it was no surprise to us when the movement against practice with professionals manifested itself, but we confess we are more than surprised at the way in which our rulers have been pleased to ignore the pressing need of some measure of reform. - [Yale Record...
...action of the Yale athletes toward the engagement of a professional trainer at the very moment of our discomfiture is another incentive to sustain our past eminence in general athletics. Not that we feel any great need of new vigor, but we know that the newly adopted regime will inevitably make itself felt before long, unless we have pride and perseverance enough of our own to fight against all obstacles. Hitherto Columbia has always been our recognized rival for the cup, and Yale has exhibited a singular indifference to this branch of sports. Now the advent of a new opponent...
Speaking of the Harvard Crimson the Acta says : "True, not much fear is to be entertained of the rivalry of the Advocate, for it is decidedly too Philadelphian in tone and is greatly in need of a firm stick from a long pin in the hands of an athletic sticker...
...rumor of a speculation in the way of a new hall for university students calls properly for some comment from the college press. The Advocate, in its last number, felt the need of some extra accommodations in view of the large classes of late years, and we join with it most heartily in urging such an outlay on the part of the college. The present rumor should only serve to hasten some official action in the same line and to deliver future class-men from the tyranny of boarding houses and outside establishments. With the present limited accommodations the freshman...