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Captain Brewer talked briefly to the men on the necessity for hard work and perseverance in training for the team. He urged them to work together as a whole rather than to attempt brilliant individual plays...
...short and heavy, not unlike Shaw of the London team, in build, and is speedy for the first five hurdles, but does not seem capable of holding the burst to the finish. With him will be W. M. Fletcher, who stands over six feet, and is broad-shouldered rather than heavy. He is slower than Pilkigton and they bear about the same speed relation as do Cady and Hatch, who will be offered as their opponents by Yale. Cady, however, has been doing splendid work over the high sticks in practice, and in a recent trial finished only a yard...
Yale made four rather bad and costly errors. Carter was in the box for six innings, and his pitching puzzled the Harvard nine. Only three hits were made off him and he struck out seven men. Trudeau then came in to pitch and Carter went to second, while Reddington took Letton's place in centre...
...American representatives would all come from Harvard, being chosen from N. W. Bingham, Jr., N. B. Marshall and W. H. Vincent. Although Oxford won the event against Yale and G. Gordon, in 51s, Vincent won the intercollegiate in 50 4/5s. Considering the track, however, the Englishman's performance is rather the better...
...natural aversion to this unnatural situation has in it no element of contempt; it is rather the respect felt for equals which makes it offensive to see them assuming duties which are universally recognized as belonging to inferiors. And again, it is respect for men as equals which compels reluctance to put them in a position where it would be hard for them to preserve to the full their own sense of equality. Contempt has no place in the protest against student waiters, nor can it be read into that protest by any but the over-sensitive...