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...strange that Fate, who's old and gray...
...return game with the New Bedfords was played in Fall River on Tuesday, April 16, and resulted in Harvard's first defeat. Our Nine played a nearly perfect fielding game, but were unable to master Bradley's new delivery, his previous defeat teaching him that his old delivery was not the right kind to oppose to Harvard's batsmen. The game was well contested through eight innings; in the ninth two earned runs were made by the New Bedfords. The injury which Ernst received in the Live Oak game rendered him very lame, and had a natural effect...
...hour at Memorial is a signal for the growler to open his lips again. He has importuned us with his complaints every day since the announcement of the change, and has asked us to write an editorial on the subject. He has brought forward all the arguments used of old against such change, and he insists most vehemently on the point that, to force a man to get up and breakfast between the hours of a quarter past seven and half past eight, is manifestly a return to those barbarous customs which he, for one, has always thought...
...that must be well known to every one who has ever been long at Harvard, for if human nature is as unchangeable as the philosophers would have us believe, this type has had its representatives in every class, ay, in every section, since the founding of the old University...
...have come to the conclusion that the marking system should be instantly abolished, and - What did you say? - grapes? That is very old, and, besides, I never did aspire to a lofty mark. Spider, who is chuckling at his triumph over me, is an unfeeling brute. His victory is not a fair one. He does not consider that while he has been grinding at that dull Greek, I have been enjoying some English classic that is none the less profitable because it will not add five per cent to my Greek mark. Indeed, if I should grind continually...