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...last of all there was a race of three legs, which contest is of this sort: two youths being bound together as to their inner legs, endeavoring thus to run, fall on the ground many times, as is likely. And the race was won by two youths, more young and tender than their companions, and called by them Freshmen...
...receiving the challenge. Cornell has not yet recovered from the evil effects of the management of her papers during the last years of the Intercollegiate races at Saratoga, and now seems to be relapsing. To charge a sister college with mean subterfuges and "sporting dodges" argues a very low sort of spirit indeed, and we hope to see no more of such criticisms. It does not speak very well for the Editors of the Era that they should so misinterpret...
...prospects were anything but encouraging; there were but few men trying for positions, and scarcely any life was shown in the matter. It was very largely owing to the interest he took in the crew that more applicants presented themselves, and that the men were brought into some sort of shape. It is asserting but little to say that Mr. Goddard took a good deal of pains coaching the Freshmen, and it is but just to him to say that they greatly improved under his care. While he does not lay claim to a professional's skill in coaching...
...felt no sort of weakness for the "well-bred college...
...book, "Harvard and Its Surroundings," says: "The mention of Jarvis Field forms a pretext for inserting three pages of base-ball records, in the course of which the implication is made that the game of July 24, 1868, which Harvard won over Yale, was the first contest of the sort between the two colleges. As a matter of fact, the Yale nine of '69 had before that date twice defeated the corresponding class-nine of Harvard; once as Freshmen in 1866 and once as Sophomores in 1867." The carelessness with which the World has treated this subject is remarkable...