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...heartily congratulate the Mott Haven Team on their successful endeavor to retain the challenge cup at Harvard, and sincerely hope that it will be a long time before we shall be obliged to relinquish it to any of our numerous athletic rivals. The members of the Team, with the exception of Mr. Thorndike, will all be with us next year; and, in addition, several new athletes are expected to join '85, so that we do not see now why our outlook in track athletics for next season is not exceedingly good. The winning...
...that the snow has gone and the track is in condition for use, we shall hope to see that our athletes appreciate the necessity of hard and faithful work if they desire to retain at Harvard the cup won by our last year's Mott Haven team. We have as yet no representatives at all for the hurdles, half-mile run, pole leaping, hammer, shot, or running broad jump, and any men who may have an idea of trying for any of these events would do well to begin as soon as possible, for they all require a great deal...
...view of the projected Yale Meetings, and a desire to keep at Harvard the championship cup, (which will be on exhibition in the Gymnasium as soon as it is finished), it would be well for our athletes to realize that if we desire to retain the position in athletics which our Mott Haven Team of last year gained for us, we cannot content ourselves with resting on their laurels, but must make up our minds to work well and faithfully with that end in view...
...Yale News urges the managers of the Athletic contests to post the dates of the events as soon as possible, and cites Harvard as a good example of enterprise in this direction. Judging from appearances, both colleges are doing their utmost, the one to win, the other to retain, prestige. At all events, the coming contests can hardly fail to be of interest. The Courant, in speaking of the letter by a Yale graduate in a recent CRIMSON, declares that "When a good solid blow is to be struck, there is nothing for the purpose like an intellect trained...
...still clung to the head, even when severed from the trunk; that the ghosts, as it were, of former senses, loath to depart, still hovered about me? And it diverted me that the faculty for punning should of all be the most tenacious. I felt a new ambition, - to retain my faculties as long as possible. I determined that by mere force of will I would prevent them from leaving...