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...again urging new candidates, and especially the foot ball men, to try for the freshman crew. We call especial attention to this notice with the hope that the men in Ninety-five will come to a realizing sense of their position. The present material for their crew is exceedingly scant and unpromising. It is hoped that the foot ball material will furnish stronger men; but what is really needed is a more courageous and earnest spirit on the part of the whole class. They cannot expect to accomplish anything unless they awake into activity at once and for all from...
...student in American History are the two articles, "The Loyalists," and "Early Dorchester"- both profusely illustrated. It is an excellent sketch that Mr. Hannay gives of the exiled "Loyalists," that band of men opposed to the colonies in the Revolutionary war, whose banishment has passed with but scant notice and has evoked very little sympathy, and in whose ranks were included some of the brightest and ablest minds in the thirteen colonies; and the author regrets that they were all banished for he thinks it was a loss to the country. "Early Dorchester," will have a special attraction for Boston...
...fall races took place at Lake Saltonstall last Saturday, and although it rained in torrents all the afternoon the contests were close and exciting. Ninety-one defeated '90 by a scant length in a two-mile race, and the Academic freshmen defeated the Scientific freshmen in a well-rowed mile race...
...here. The foot-ball season is a short one and the only way to counteract this handicap is for everyone trying for a position on the team to put his whole heart and soul into the game and work to bring his college out first in the contest. A scant four weeks is all the time that remains before the first championship game takes place and in that space of time men must get into perfect training and learn all the new tricks...
...every effort of the Bacterias to score proved futile. But just before the time expired a curious line of fortuitous circumstances aided by a magnificent rush gave the Bacterias a touch-down. With but three seconds left the ball was placed and a goal kicked tieing the score. So scant was the time that one enthusiast declares that the ball still in the air had not yet reached the goal posts before the contest was ended. The support of the teams was wildly enthusiastic...