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...Freshmen played the Yale Freshmen a game of Base-Ball on Saturday last. The weather was most favorable, and the number of spectators was quite large. Game was called about three o'clock, our men going first to the bat. They succeeded in obtaining one run, and managed to give their opponents a whitewash. In the second inning Harvard scored 2, Yale again retiring without a run. During the next three innings neither side scored; and up to this point the game was remarkably well played, and the errors were few. In the sixth inning our Freshmen made four runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD '80 versus YALE '80. | 5/18/1877 | See Source »

...training on the part of most of the men desiring to enter, the single-scull race has been indefinitely postponed; but it will probably take place about June 15. A programme of the races, which will take place as usual over the Union Boat-Club's course, accompanies this number of the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/18/1877 | See Source »

...Faculty by members of the Senior Class, and which will be of interest to them. It is very unfortunate that when affairs seemed to be taking a more favorable turn, certain members of the Class should have seen fit to endeavor to defeat the arrangements. There are a large number of students who have borne a prominent part in originating and carrying on the present troubles, who take no active share in Class Day, and do not help to defray its expenses. Such persons also constitute the majority of those who oppose the present plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/18/1877 | See Source »

...owing to our having taken immediately before it a large dose of other college papers. The prize oration on Carlyle is certainly original and thoughtful, though we cannot commend its style. The editors of the Lit. should be careful about quotations. Horace and Coleridge both suffer in this number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 5/18/1877 | See Source »

LAMENTING the fact that the cities of Montpelier and St. Albans send so few students to college, the Montpelierian says: "We venture to say that the number could be counted on the fingers of one's hands, and then there would be enough left so he could eat in an emergency." If the Niagara Index should see this statement, it would try to prove that higher education tends to cannibalism as well as suicide. The Montpelierian gives the following charming picture: "Our campus, out of study hours, is covered with base-ball players and croquet matches, and our reverend Professors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 5/18/1877 | See Source »