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Today our nine plays its first game for the college championship. We wish that we could predict success with certainty, but for us to make such a prediction, under present circumstances, would be very hazardous. We can predict with confidence, however, that whatever may be the result of the game, the Harvard nine will do its utmost to gain the victory. The game today will probably be the hardest we shall have to play this year and defeat can be no disgrace. Victory will be creditable in the highest degree. The nine carries with it to Providence our earnest wishes...
...last two years to bring about such an organization, we are surprised that she has received no notice of such intentions on the part of other colleges before. We hear, however, from the daily papers, that Harvard is to be invited to join, and we think we can predict with safety that she will take advantage of the invitation...
Ayars made a hard, plucky fight, and we predict for him success before leaving college...
...game in the college papers until May 9, 1879, when the Advocate editorially speaks the first welcome word for lacrosse in the following words.: "The members of the lacrosse team deserve the thanks of the college for having established the game at Harvard." It further ventures to predict that it will "take its place with foot-ball and base-ball as a game requiring skill and practice...
...athletics, but of late she has dropped behind Harvard. Why is this so? Not because Harvard men have any physical superiority, naturally, but because of determined work, and that, too, not by one or two men, but by large numbers. For several years past it has been possible to predict for months in advance that Columbia would not secure the intercollegiate cup. This year the chances are, that unless a new support arises, the college will drop to a still lower place...