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...sincerely thank the graduates for the interest they show in our work, and regret that we were so situated as to be obliged to make use of means to which, in the days of Harvard's Base-Ball Champions, it would not have been necessary to resort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE BALL. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

...Junior Crew, though composed of light men, is making a good show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

...training and improve their form, as the Captains of the other crews are going to do. The report may be untrue; but, if it is not, I, as a member of the Class of '82, wish to call the attention of the Class to it and also to show the Captain that there is a strong feeling in the Class that he ought to stay, even if he cannot get a complete crew to stay with him, as there are several new men in the boat this year, and what they need more than rowing, in a crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

...reached that height, he is certain to be unnerved by it rather than aided. At the Union's recent meeting they refused to tell contestants what the height was, even when they wished to know, and we are sure that inquiry among the men who jump would show that they all were against having the height announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

...could not help pitying the poor Chinaman, who presented a most woful appearance. His sad story is soon told. True to the instinct of a foreigner, he had made a pun in his Fine Arts Lecture. The fellows endeavored to show their appreciation by a thundering wooding-up and yells of applause. This seeming derision was too much for the hot blood of the Eastern Despot, - he sailed for the rabble. . . . The pieces of pigtail and silk trousers which hang as trophies in rooms of Seniors and Juniors might suggest his appearance as he came on the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIALS OF COLLEGE LIFE. | 3/19/1880 | See Source »