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...returns from the various colleges of this country show an astonishing increase in the size of the incoming classes. This fact awakens in everyone the realization of the truth that during the past few years the strides made in all the departments of science and literature have been very great, but in no direction has this advance become more manifest than in the progress of learning at the different colleges. The faculties have adopted broader principles, giving the students a larger scope in the selection of studies, and the number of courses in the different schools have been constantly enlarged...
...large number of spectators who were attracted to Jarvis Field, in spite of the wet ground and cloudy sky, show clearly what a strong interest is felt in the prospects of Harvard College in the coming contest...
...football season is at hand. Will a regenerated opinion show that Harvard can win as well as lose; or will the old lackadaisical spirit-occasioned, we believe, by a morbid fear of criticism-influence those who ought to offer their services and prevent them from making themselves known? If the new students of this year will be brave enough to care nothing for the feelings which certain badly bred but omnipresent persons are rude enough to show, then we may never hear again that remark which has become now extremely trite, "Oh! They don't know how to play foot...
...unbounded confidence. When told one day in 1876 that an article had been inserted in a newspaper setting forth the strength of his claim for the nomination as against Grant, he became very angry, saying that if the Grant crowd were stirred up against him he would 'have no show.' His 'orations' and poems (generally written for him by some student) were marvels of polysyllabic nonsense...
...location cannot be remedied, but the principal cause of our repeated defeats can be removed. Until there is a cinder track at Cornell, it is safe to say that our runners, at least, will never win anything at Mott Haven. Only those accustomed to running on loose cinders can show to advantage on the tracks in New York City. The long heavy stride developed on a hard, firm clay track is totally unsuited to ground that cups at every step. Practice on a cinder track, however, in time develops a short light step eminently adapted to loose ground...