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...experiment is at present being made of uniting all athletic expenses under one management, we should depreciate, as out of sympathy with the spirit of this experiment, any ordinary door-to-door canvassing. The club ought to be as nearly as possible self-supporting, and to rely for funds rather on additions to its membership than on general subscriptions. There are many students to whom the situation in regard to the Cricket Club will appeal and who are well able to give their support by becoming members. We sincerely hope that the cricket team shall thus be satisfactorily backed...
...present the outlook for a good nine is rather dark, but with hard work on the part of both coaches and candidates a very fair ball team may be developed from the rather raw material now on hand...
Bowditch is inexperienced and rather clumsy, but with good coaching he will improve. Field, though rather light, gives promise, and Hewes is fairly good...
...have class feeling broken down is, in some ways, a good thing. A university spirit is rather to be cultivated than a class spirit has been so lusty and pugnacious that it was, at best, only an irresponsible boyishness. And yet we believe that the total abolition of the class spirit would be bad. A normal class spirit helps, rather than hinders, a university spirit. If a student's loyalty is to be real, and not sentimental, it must be for that which is really closely connected with his life. Now the freshman, for example, more readily becomes loyal...
...same line of character painting are the more pleasing sketches of "Girls," by A. C. Train. They are not all equally good, but the worst is far from bad, and one or two of them are delightful. Their vividness is in striking contrast with the rather vague picture called up by P. L. Shaw's verses on "The Madman," which follow closely...