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...arrive. About 8 o'clock the football team and a number of other athletic men, together with some who were not athletic, began to assemble in the rooms. Perhaps fifty men were in the rooms when Messrs. Hodges and Sherwood arrived. Cumnock introduced the former gentleman as spokesman for New York, saying that the whole college owed the graduates from that city unstinted gratitude for the earnest efforts they had made to show our athletes how their efforts to win in a straightforward gentlemanly way will be backed by the approbation of the alumni. He added that Mr. Hodges...
...good-fellowship, knowing our needs and appreciating in every way our position as college men. It was this that so endeared him to us all. He seemed to stand in the breach between the conservative government of our university and the more democratic body of students, and thus as spokesman of both groups, he helped each to understand the attitude of the other on matters of general college interest. His loss will be severely felt, and Harvard will not, we fear, soon fill his place again...
...contributors, who were next toasted. Mr. Dana spoke in behalf of the University Crew, controverting in a humorous manner those persons who contend that training is injurious to the health. The Ball Nine was represented by its captain, Mr. Tyler, who was in turn followed by Mr. Jaques, the spokesman of the editors elect from '76, Mr. Swift, '77, and Mr. Prince, '73, who spoke for the past editors. Others followed, till the parting toast of the evening was proposed by Mr. Everett to his friend and pupil, Mr. W. R. Tyler, the President of the Advocate board...