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...committee now earnestly requests all students, whether candidates for teams or not, to refrain from running for exercise on the sidewalks, and not to run at all in unseemly clothing...
...were annoyed by having the students use the sidewalks for their exercise, and last year the annoyance became so great as to be generally considered a nuisance. Complaints were made to the city government, and a request was sent to the authorities of the University asking that the students refrain from using the sidewalks for running. Steps were immediately taken in the matter and from that time the athletic teams always ran in the street. Other students were urged to follow their example and for the rest of the year there was no further occasion for remonstrance. We regret exceedingly...
...choir sang "Hearken unto Me," by A. Sullivan, and "O, Great Jehovah," by Mozart. D. M. Babcock '77, bass soloist in the New Old South Church, Boston, sang the refrain of the second an them and Handel's "Largo...
...cannot refrain from congratulating you upon the splendid work the Harvard men did yesterday, particularly in the second half. Nothing more disheartening than its opening can be imagined. With an adverse score and a vindictive wind which had been of no service in the first half, suddenly rising to a half gale, so that the flag-staff bent, I could not imagine what instructions you could give the men. In the face of it all to carry the ball 80 yards without once losing it and to a touchdown, was a feat not often seen on any field. I trust...
...toward those who are always making excuses for defeat is put none too strongly. The writer, however, fails to distinguish between the spirit which characterizes the excuse makers and that of those who, while feeling keenly and bitterly the humiliation which defeat brings just because it is defeat, cannot refrain from expressing their appreciation of the men who, as they sincerely think, "did the best they could," "played a sandy, up-hill game" and "played like gentlemen." Applied to last Saturday's game, such expressions are not "nonsense" nor are they generally received as such as witness Mr. Elder...