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...play. This was a delicate way of obliging our team to play at Cambridge for the simple reason that the receipts at Springfield would have been by no means sufficient to pay expenses ; while at Cambridge they were reasonably large. It is worthy of notice also, that no offer was made to pay half the expenses of our team to Cambridge, although in view of the fact that the Harvard team had no travelling expenses to pay, and yet were to share equally in the gate money, this would have been no more than fair...
...year, at this early date, the number of "mockers" has grown to be legion. What it will become later at its present rate of increase, is a prospect we shudder to contemplate. Everything except extermination has been recommended hitherto, and we are now emboldened, as a last resort, to offer this remedy as of value for our troubles with the "mucker...
...room for any other nines to play. If there were more grounds it would be quite possible to organize class nines; besides, in this case there are a large number of men who would be glad to indulge in occasional or "scrub" games. What remedy President Eliot has to offer other than enlarging the college playgrounds we do not know...
...offer this plan, fully convinced that the present one is radically wrong, and that this year the injustice will be greater than ever before, owing to the small number of the courts. A system so absurdly unjust as the present one must go some time, and the present is the best time to do away with it without injustice...
...made to fill his place have been as yet very unsuccessful. A department without a head can hardly be a success, and we are afraid the department in question is hardly an exception. The supporters of modern languages at Harvard should see to it that they have something to offer in place of the instruction they wish to do away with. A comparison between our Greek and German departments could hardly assist the self-called "party of progress," and we are afraid this hold is true to a large extent in the schools...