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...freshmen, on their part played a plucky, up-hill game, contesting every inch of the ground, though only once, after a long punt, and off-side play by '97, did it seem possible for the '99 team to score...
...following comparisons of scores, though of course not conclusive evidence of the strength of the team, is nevertheless interesting. Harvard beat Cornell 25-0, cornell beat Adelbert 12-4, Michigan beat Adelbert 64-0. Michigan has not been scored against this year. In view of these facts it would seem that the game with Michigan on Saturday should be one of the most closely contested of the season. Michigan is to play no other eastern team this year...
...indulges: "It were better for the life and morals of Boston that Harvard College were under the sea;" and again, "The effect of Harvard on the morals of Boston is about the same as that of a standing army of idle soldiers on a European garrison city." It may seem absurd to undertake the refutation of such purely calumnious assertions, yet it would surely be injurious to Harvard were they suffered to pass unnoticed. Were it not to guard against possible credence on the part of those as entirely ignorant of Harvard life as the writer in the Illustrated American...
...freshman football practice, yesterday afternoon, was, on the whole, sharp and spirited. The good work was marred, however, by the old fault of fumbling. The men seem to be in first-class condition, and at times play a brilliant game, but the work is not as reliable and consistent as it should be, now that the season is so far advanced...
...entertainments do show the lighter side of college life, what, in the eyes of any person, is a more natural way of spending the few days of respite from college duties? On this particular ground, the concerts allowed by the Faculty in term-time, in the vicinity of Boston, seem to be much more open to objection...