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...athletics, we want to say a word of the coming season in another branch, which, at Harvard, receives hardly its due attention. The cricket team starts in work with commendable energy. The men who are now interested in the sport are working hard for success, and their prospects seem bright. What the cricket team needs for success, however, is not harder training, but more men. The numbr of candidates now under Captain Garrett is comparatively small. It needs only an awakened interest in the college at large to swell this number, and to make our chances for victory infinitely greater...
There will be no great change, however, in the way of training the nine from the methods of former years. Nevertheless, the prospects for success seem to us brighter than ever before. The effect of the work done in football and of the victory won will surely be felt; and above all the spirit of earnestness which has begun to prevade our athletics will go far towards making the season a successful...
...Extra," by Norman Hapgood-the only fiction in the number-is not a story of action or of incident, but rather one of character delineation. The different moods of the hero are vividly drawn, and although the scene with the other principal character-the heroine-does not seem to have the force it should possess, the story as a whole gives a clear and correct picture of one of a class of men who, as the author says, "were prominent at Harvard a decade...
...said also that the men look stockier than most crews and the average height of the candidates seem to be less than for several years. There is no lack of muscular strength among the men, though the strongest men are most inexperienced. The rowing is rather faulty at present, stiffness and awkwardness being visible in the rowing of almost every man. Following is a allots of the men with some criticisms on their rowing and general information...
...alumni of Harvard who live in and about Boston seem to be less active and to take less interest in the welfare of their University than the alumni of any other college. Just now the graduates of nearly every college which is represented by any sufficient number of men, are dining together, and talking over the condition of their respective institutions. They take a real interest in keeping up with educational advances, and each man is anxious to help the governing body of his college in the effort to raise the standard. Harvard graduates do not show the same zeal...