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...Exeter nine is rather weak this year and the freshmen found little difficulty in getting away with them on Saturday. For Harvard, Young played the most brilliant game. His batting was also the best. Sabin's pitching was effective. Anable and McClung did good work for Exeter. Piper and Linn filled their positions acceptably. Slade and Bates did some vigorous batting. The score...
...very much of a literary production. Considerable skill is shown in the treatment of a sketch entitled "The Streets of Boston." "Banished" is a bright, humorous conceit. Of the two papers on Milton and on Goethe, the latter is decidedly the stronger. They are both treated in a rather cursory way and the ideas embodied in both essays would not suffer from greater elaboration. The best bit of writing in this issue is undoubtedly a sketch, "Mr. Blanc," which shows maturity of thought and excellent mastery of language. The task of describing a character is accomplished without the usual effect...
...impetuosity of youth rather than the professional element we may ascribe whatever there is bad in the betting that goes on at the college races in the United States. 'Boys will be boys' is a remark which enjoys a perennial popularity in all ages and all lands. The same may be said of the spies that are sent out by two colleges to note the proficiency and faults of the rival crew; it springs from boyishness more than anything else; it is the act of half-men who a few years earlier were reading dime novels, daubing their cheeks with...
...class is new to me, and certainly no sane person would accredit so ridiculous an idea. I have encountered none of the "bitter feeling" which "'90" states as existing and I doubt if any such exists. The statement that the crew are in need of money is rather stretched, as I know for a fact that the class has subscribed most generously to it, the amount from subscription alone being greater than ever before, and in addition to this sum, the amount given from the proceeds of the freshman concert was more than has ever been given before from that...
...eagerness and determination to win that has marked all their doings since their recent defeat. Yesterday morning a communication appeared in our columns which bewailed the reckless expenditures by the base-ball management of the funds subscribed by the freshman class for the support of its team. It seems rather small for any one to begrudge a suit, even though it does cost thirty-four dollars, to the nine, and its six substitutes, that have borne their defeat with such a manly spirit and are working so hard to retrieve their past misfortune. When we look...