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...nine had no difficulty in defeating the nine from Williamstown on Holmes Field, yesterday afternoon. Though the Williams men at times fielded sharply, they show great want of practice, especially in batting; wild throws and fumbles at critical points gave Harvard her runs. During the whole game, Williams reached first base but twice...
...lost by Harvard, '88, quoting a letter to that effect, no one who had read the letter in question from an untiased standpoint could have helped seeing what the writer meant. He meant that the Yale game probably decided the championship, for if beaten there we had certainly no show of winning the 3rd game; but he never, as he himself acknowledges, meant or inferred that one game makes a championship: nor could anyone but a Yale freshman construe such a meaning from it. Something will have to be done, whether it consist in claiming championships we have only...
...hope that our nine will show some improvement in one respect in this game, that is, in base running and coaching. In this respect our nine's play has been wretched in almost every game which it has played this year, and if it had not been for its splendid fielding and heavy batting we should have lost more than one game simply through this fault. There are doubtless, reasons why every man cannot be a good base runner, but there is no excuse for the poor coaching, which has cost us many a run this season. If there...
...celebrate their athletic victories in a manner which shall merit the trust reposed in them, he goes on to give the theory of college government; that is, that government of students should be by students, that all matters of discipline should be decided by them just so soon they show fitness to be intrusted with such matters, We think that the time is now ripe for carrying out this theory at Harvard...
...abuse the overseers recommend that these privileges be very sparingly granted that great care be taken in admitting special students to the various courses of the university, and that the several faculties use every effort to maintain a strict discipline, and to admit in this department any persons who show that they seek these advantages for the purpose of genuine study. The report of the committee on the relations of the faculty to the overseers was adopted, and Hon. Mr. Lowell was appointed a committee to express the regret of the board in accepting the resignation of the president...