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...strengthened it lately. Her defeats are always due to a prejudiced judge, umpire or referee, or unfair play of opponents. Her shabby treatment of Columbia last summer is in full keeping with the principle which she follows; if defeat seems a foregone conclusion it is better to skulk away. Dartmouth has had as good a nine as either Harvard or Princeton since the league was formed, but has been unlucky. When she has added three or four more departments; when she establishes a nursery for cultivating base-ball talent; when she makes use of players until they have justly earned...

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