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...trying its best to outwit and get the best of the other. Is this the spirit of generous emulation which should characterize gentlemen who engage in athletic sports? College base-ball clubs have been handled by professional trainers, and have obtained their practice by playing professional clubs - something happily put an end to at Harvard...
...very well with the courses I had intended pursuing at Harvard; but how to obtain admittance to them was a problem that seemed to me well nigh incapable of being solved. I bethought myself of a certificate furnished me by our dean, and with a modest mien, determined to put it to practical use. With my indifferent French I explained with some difficulty to the authorities my desires, displayed the dean's certificate and the wonders of a systematically arranged catalogue of an American university, being exceedingly careful to give them an exalted idea of the amount of knowledge required...
...having a series of five games with Yale. '83 is the only class in college that can remember such a series. The last series was played under particularly unfavorable circumstances, at a time when we had an especially weak nine to pit against the strongest nine that Yale ever put into the field. Every senior will recollect with pride the plucky fight we then made for supremacy against overwhelming odds. The 2 to 1 game, the 3 to 0 game, and the 3 to 1 game, coming as they did after the disastrous 21-4 game, stand without a parallel...
This year we are fortunate in having the games determined on and the dates fixed at the very beginning of the season, an end being thus put to the almost endless negotiations which have hitherto been deemed indispensable. There is no good reason why the precedent thus established should not be followed in succeeding years. making the annual series of base-ball games with Yale as much a fixture as the annual Yale race promises...
...government was pressed for money, and a general system of internal taxation was determined upon and put into action by the bill of this year. Mr. Morrill, in order to compensate for this tax upon the people, proposed a bill, which was passed, raising the tariff rate. Two years later the great "Tariff Act of 1864" was passed, which is said to be the largest financial transaction in the world's history. Internal taxes were considerably raised, and tariff duties were made much larger than ever before...