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...lower benches was obstructed for some time, and general discomfort resulted to all who had tickets. We do not believe that the trouble was wholly due to the police, who have hitherto done their part in a satisfactory manner; but the officers of the Foot-Ball Club are rather to blame for not having given the police proper and explicit orders, and for not having seen to it themselves that their orders were properly executed...
...boat-club only in name, and consists of an association that hires the boat-house, and, by hook or by crook, scrapes together enough money to pay the expenses of the University crew or to arrange its debts. Instead of encouraging the real interest in boating, it rather discourages it by calling on the undergraduates for $2,000 or $3,000 every year without giving anybody a chance to row excepting the crew and those who go to the additional expense of buying a boat and paying rent on it. Membership of the H. U. B. C. merely gives...
...Nine made its first appearance on the field down at Lynn, where they played the Live Oaks. There was quite a large crowd gathered to see the "Oaks" polish off the Harvards; but, for Lynn, it was a very quiet and amiable assemblage. The game was one-sided and rather stupid, it being perfectly evident from the very first inning what the result would be. In the last half of the ninth inning the batting of our Nine was very good. The result of the game formed an auspicious opening of the season, being 11 to 3 in our favor...
...mention these facts, not from any wish to prove that the "bad air" of our Harvard recitation-rooms is of no account, but rather to show that there are students who can put up with a state of things that to us, fortunately, is intolerable. Happily our "shady side" is not that we live "hermetically sealed...
...college students consider themselves men, and are more or less indignant if that dignity be denied them, it is rather interesting to investigate the claims that many have to the title...