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THROUGH the kindness of the captain of the Nine we are enabled to print this week a complete list of games played by the Harvard nines from 1865 down to the present time. This list will be found valuable as the only complete record of our base-ball prowess, - a record which we have every reason to be proud...
...more sorry to record the recent defeat of our Foot-ball Team because we have had to record defeat for them so seldom; and after the brilliant way in which the season opened, we had hoped to keep a clean score. We have been fairly and squarely beaten by a team as strong as any we have ever met, and we are willing to acknowledge that we did not expect to see in them the great improvement they have made since our game last spring. It is not our desire to find any paltry excuse for our lack of success...
...uplifted" instead of "unuplifted," which spoils not only Wordsworth's meaning and metre, but the argument to illustrate which the writer uses the lines. The Yale Lit. is really very interesting; we must not judge of Yale from the Courant and Record. On the whole, college magazines are not nearly so objectionable as college papers...
...this is now an excuse of the past. For it was decided, at the last meeting of the Athletic Association, that prizes are not to be given unless a fixed standard be attained. And in the interest of Harvard Athletics this is a most fortunate decision. Our best record is not flattering when compared with other American colleges. But put it side by side with that of Oxford or Cambridge, and it becomes an object for commiseration...
...forego the pleasures of their Sybarite existence rather by the value of the prize than by the honor of winning the contest (and we fear they too often are), the association undoubtedly would do all in their power to afford the necessary incentive, in the hope of bettering a record which it is too true is only very mediocre...