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...instead of friendly contests and pleasant visits between colleges, we are to have all the hard work of practice for no other purpose than to play against men who make base-ball a means of support, I am afraid that the old exciting times of base-ball are over...
...tone of pity in asking how you have managed to live through the vacation "on this side." Piccadilly oozes from every square inch of his person. He "strolls" into a shop with you; asks the price of something; says, when answered, "Sixteen dollars? ah! three pounds four shillings. Yes, old man, yes, that's cheap." He corrects you frequently as to "good form," assuring you that he is right beyond question, for your expression is unknown outside "the States...
Professor W. Everett, being called upon to reply to the first toast of the evening, "Alma Mater," remarked that he was less in the confidence of the Old Lady than many other persons high in office; a distinction which had appeared to be recognized by the managers of the Centennial at Concord, who had provided carriages for the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard College, and requested himself and his colleagues to follow on foot! However, the College had done its going to Concord in 1776, when it moved there bodily to allow the Revolutionary army to occupy Hollis and Stoughton...
...called improvement from that part of the community which favored the brand-new institutions of the day, grinding out A. B.'s by patent machinery. They might leave out Harvard College in the cold if they chose, and stigmatize her studies, her habits, her buildings, her societies, as old-fashioned. Sooner or later they would all come back to her, as having discovered and worked out for herself, by the experience of generations, what were the real demands of a liberal education, whose object was to make...
...Sherwood next did justice for "Our Contributors." In answering the toast to "The Fathers of the Magenta," Mr. Merwin, '74, mentioned some of the causes which led to the founding of the paper. He referred to the excellent opportunity which the annual dinner gave for old editors to hand down to new ones the principles of the paper, and urged the present Board to stand by the principles of their predecessors...