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...promise the freshman class gives in the way of track and field athletics. The fall freshman athletic meeting is always looked forward to with much interest, not with any great expectation that records will be broken, but because it is the first time that the freshmen have occasion to show their skill in that branch of athletics which has ever been peculiarly Harvard's, We cannot impress too strongly upon the competitors the necessity of doing their very best, for the chance of places on the Mott Haven team depends largely upon the records which are made at this...
...Thursday, criticising the management of the lacrosse team for not keeping up practice during these weeks of open weather. Having taken an active interest in the different branches of athletics, and among them lacrosse, since entering the university, I wish to defend the course of the lacrosse management, and show that it is a perfectly reasonable...
...broomstick with a firecracker inserted in one end, and promptly reported the authorities a diabolical plot to blow up the dormitory buildings of the college. If matters do not make an immediate change for the better, it will not be many moons before the entering classes will begin to show a serious falling off in numbers. College life has too many dangers now, in the eyes of parents and guardians, without the added fear of annihilation by gas and gunpowder...
...eleven, the class spirit which has lately found an outlet in the rather unsatisfactory rush will now be turned into a more legitimate channel, and will be a benefit rather than a detriment to the college. The energetic way in which the freshmen have set to work serves to show that eighty-nine will not be content with the bottom position in the list of classes...
...being paid $308.42, making my excess of liabilities over assets $1269.01. From this it can be seen that I have reduced the debt of the Boat Club $350, in round numbers. Considering that the Hasty Pudding theatricals yielded exactly $404 less than they did last year, my accounts show a reduction of $750. This reduction is mostly due to careful management by Capt. Storrow, whose purpose it was to run the crew on strictly economical principles, to which purpose he steadily adhered. I have felt and still feel that to manage the Boat Club money extravagantly or carelessly...