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...keep possession of the ball and stopped long throwing, but their rushes were checked near the centre. After ten minutes play our attack for the ball and some pretty passing followed, ending in a straight goal for Dudley. The Bostons amused themselves with aimless long throws during the rest of the half hour; only two of these throws came near our goal, and these were promptly caught and returned by Williams. The first half closed with the score, Harvard, 2; Boston...
...last year will not be wanting this. The series of games played last spring between scrub nines was extremely interesting and not without real value. A similar series should be arranged for the present season. At this time of the year the bat and the ball should have no rest, and the time that is not occupied by the 'varsity games, and class contests, which we suppose will be soon announced, should be fully occupied by the "non-professionals," to whom we would say with Horace, "Carpe diem...
...Slumps badly at both ends of the stroke. Although the heaviest man in the boat he fails to row a strong oar as he applies his strength very badly. Keeps his blade but half covered most of the time. Is slow on the recover, which puts out the rest...
...form of government has succeeded so well, because nationalities and sects have yielded to a certain extent in matters of peculiar customs and belief. If the church segregates its children from the rest of the community, if it causes them to regard this government as protestant and themselves as strangers in a strange land, if it keeps social classes from mingling where is most opportunity for mingling, it destroys one of the safeguards of the republic...
...life of a Chinese journalist is a happy one. He is free from care and thought, and allows all the work of the establishment to be done by the pressman. The Chinese compositor has not yet arrived. The Chinese editor, like the rest of his countrymen, is imitative. He does not depend upon his brain for editorials, but translates them from all the contemporaneous American papers he can get. There is no humorous department in the Chinese newspaper. The newspaper office has no exchanges scattered over the floor, and in nearly all other things it differs from the American establishment...