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...game with the University of Michigan today ought to be well worth seeing. Michigan's team does not seem to be quite as strong as usual this year, but it is undoubtedly strong enough to make Harvard work hard. The fact that day before yesterday they played Princeton and yesterday Yale, will make the game a valuable one for purposes of comparison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Today's Game. | 5/27/1892 | See Source »

What has become of the wild enthusiasm which was created by Harvard's boating victory? Where are the supporters of the crew? Now that the collectors are on their rounds, they seem to have silently folded their tents and as silently stolen away. The 'varsity crew is almost in rags, Rags I say. There are not two sweaters alike in the whole crew. How can we expect any telling sympathetic vibration when there is no uniformity of appearance. The crew should have better support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 5/22/1892 | See Source »

...enjoy life more or less. It cannot be all study, nor yet all athletics. He must keep up his social interest with the outside world. To be tied down to college bounds and not given any time to go about, to do anything, or to see anybody would seem to most the height of unjust almost tyrannical restriction. Yet this is just the slavery to which the crew men voluntarily submit themselves. Every afternoon at half past three (not unfrequently in the morning too) the men have to go down to the river. It matters not what the weather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/22/1892 | See Source »

...team has been unusually fortunate both in getting Mr. Leigh's advice, and in being permitted, through the kindness of the Longwood C. C., to use the Longwood grounds. The men seem to appreciate this and are all working hard and faithfully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cricket Practice. | 5/20/1892 | See Source »

...teams are much more evenly matched this year than last, but a comparison of the records made by Harvard and Yale in the different events in recent meetings seem to indicate that Harvard's chances are much the better. But there are always surprises in store for both sides and the following calculations are made with a full realization of the uncertainty of such predictions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Athletic Team. | 5/18/1892 | See Source »