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...defeated by a score of 21 to 4, - a defeat more severe than the Harvard Nine has ever suffered from our old opponents. The game was won not so much by errors on our side as by the heavy batting of Yale. Shattuck's delivery did not seem to present any difficulty to the Yale Nine, and the ball was pounded all over the field. Our batting was by no means weak, ten hits being made off Lamb, but these were scattered; and the beautiful fielding of Yale prevented runs being made, even when the bases were filled...
...said, however, in excuse for the poorness of the records at the pole leaping and throwing the hammer, that each of these events has been competed for only once at our meetings, and the men had then made no preparation at all for them; but with the present inducements offered by the H. A. A., we shall expect to see the hammer thrown much farther than 59 ft. 8 in. on May 22, and can only regret the lack of opportunity for the improvement of the pole leaping record likewise...
...system as it now stands is very deficient. Even after the first year there are no steps taken to secure a thorough English education for the students. Sophomore rhetoric increases rather than diminishes the evil, because the least attractive side of the study is presented. We ought rather to read good English than attempt to correct bad; and rhetoric, naturally connected with composition, is, by the present system, entirely divorced from it. Recitations in rhetoric are attended, themes are written; but what connection between the two exists in the mind of the student? Our English electives, too, are deficient...
...have not intended to find fault with the Faculty as the cause of these evils. We cannot expect the present small corps of English instructors to do further duty. But we can expect that an earnest appeal shall be made for sufficient funds to establish new professorships, or procure new assistants, in this important branch of study. But while the present overcrowding of both instructors and students continues, it will be difficult to induce men of high reputation to come here, men worthy of sitting in company with the many truly famous professors whose names appear upon our catalogue...
...thought that undue conceit had caused the viscosity of the brain tissues. Another attributed the contraction of the cerebral cavity to the course of study pursued by the Senior. A third, with a powerful microscope, found a small particle of knowledge acquired before the subject came to college; the present tense of the verb video and the multiplication-table were all that could be distinguished. The Senior's dress was very elegant, and is now in the Morgue awaiting identification. It consists of tight blue trousers, a waistcoat with red spots, and a neatly cut jacket marked "Poole...