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...there is any college team which deserves the hearty support of Harvard College, and which is, instead, shamefully neglected, it is the Lacrosse team. Year after year this team has trained patiently without any encouragement from the college. Year after year it has brought back the championship to Harvard, sometimes all alone in its glory. And what comes of it? Is any celebration arranged in honor of the event? Are the members of the winning team rewarded even with the faintest praise for their exertions and success? Are cups voted them? The CRIMSON devotes half a column to an editorial...
...Lacrosse Association is out of debt, and indeed, under the excellent management of last year, has retained a small surplus. This is then the condition of the Lacrosse Association, and if patience and victory deserve any merit the Harvard Lacrosse Association does, for it has been most patient under neglect, and uniformly victorious in its contests...
...Princeton's game is the one handed down to them for years. It depends entirely upon the use of skilful men, with a neglect of balancing their team well, and it was through paying little or no attention to the style of game they must meet in their opponents, they found themselves too light to successfully check the heavy rushing. The weakness of their forward line left too much tackling for the halves, who in turn were so used up by this tackling, that they had no strength to show their skill when the time came...
...English schools and universities are notoriously devoted to the classics to the neglect often of even more fundamental knowledge than modern languages-of chemistry and the natural sciences. This agitation is in the right direction and the English mind is a too conservative one to allow the change to become too radical...
...food. There are eighty different articles on the list which have to be cooked to order, and there are often several hundred extra orders called for in a day. The three general cooks have to prepare all this in addition to their regular work, and to do so, must neglect something which ought to be done. The employees themselves recognize this and in the language of one of the them, 'would consider themselves in a perfect paradise in the kitchen if the extras were abolished." The system itself is a bad one, as either there must be great waste...